Posted on 02/01/2022 3:48:16 PM PST by simpson96
Authorities in Germany are under fire for tracking down witnesses to a potential crime by using data from a mobile phone app that was intended to help identify close contacts of people infected with the coronavirus.
Police in the city of Mainz, near Frankfurt, successfully petitioned local health authorities to release data from an app called Luca when a man fell to his death after leaving a restaurant in November. They said they were seeking witnesses who had dined at the restaurant around the same time and reportedly found 21 people from the app data.
The apparent misuse of the data has been criticized by privacy advocates, who fear that such sensitive information will be used for non-pandemic-control purposes.
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So, it’s a “conspiracy theory” to think that authorities might use electronic apps to locate unvaccinated people? That’s exactly the sort of thing they’ve been itching to do.
If it actually happened, is it still just a conspiracy?
The parents who clapped their hands at the idea that they could now track their kids seemed to have never figured out that this meant someone could also track them.
Easy enough to take the sim card out.
But then they’ll use facial recognition and track your laptop and kindle and your car and....
Just wait till they start fuel-taxing by mile with gps in your car.
Nothing to fuel, this incident just affirms what they’ve been saying.
Considering both the government and the polizei swore up and down they would NEVER think to do this, honestly who is surprized?
No different from how the “Seat belt fines will only happen if we pull you over for something else” to “Click it or Ticket” in under 3 years.
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