this post was submitted on 03 Jul 2023
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Unfortunantly this kind of data will be misused. I remember there was a big push from my governemnt to use contact tracing apps. Only to find out later that police were using it in investigations.
What government/country was this, out of curiosity? I thought the whole point of the local-storage-only approach was protecting privacy, so curious how it could be used in investigations.
Australia. Government funded apps, not the Google/iOS implementation. It's been a few years so I was a bit confused on the details. It is not stored locally which is how it was used.