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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsHow is contact tracing supposed to work if the info given is fake?
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jberryhill
(62,444 posts)...or thousands of other things based on people telling the truth?
The reason they work is that most people actually aren't dicks.
Bernardo de La Paz
(49,047 posts)They are found out soon enough.
For contact tracing, if their "contacts" don't play out, then they might get an interview with a police officer or police detective and told of the consequences. If they persist then they can get put up on charges of "filing a false report" or "lying to a police officer", etc.
But jberryhill would know more about such details than I do and they vary somewhat depending on jurisdiction.
In practice, most people get serious when they realize the authorities are serious about tracing. But these days some jurisdictions are not serious about tracing. Is Florida serious? Is Georgia serious?
Bernardo de La Paz
(49,047 posts)Note: I see a blank, but I presume the video is there.
jberryhill
(62,444 posts)The song, released in late 1981, initially gained popularity on the American West Coast in January 1982; many who had the number soon abandoned it because of unwanted calls.
Midnight Writer
(21,819 posts)canetoad
(17,197 posts)Does not electronically go through your contact list, instead relying on a bluetooth signal to and from other phones.
Therefore, if someone using COVIDSafe is diagnosed with COVID-19, health officials can use the patient's app data to quickly notify people they've been in contact with. The hope is that this will help contain outbreaks and slow the spread of the coronavirus.
https://mashable.com/article/covidsafe-australia-government-coronavirus-tracking-app-privacy-security/
getagrip_already
(14,891 posts)Look, doctors and scientists aren't idiots. Though some are forced to say things by idiots, or they become idiots by pursuing political agendas in public office or the media. But the ones who set up these programs are pretty well grounded.
They know that people who are closeted won't reveal their real contacts. If a married man had sex with a man and got a disease that gets tracked, they will say it was a woman they don't know. Trace ends.
It's built into how the system works. Most people who are traced for CV will be pretty honest. Some with hidden lifestyles won't reveal those details, but at least the ones they do can be contacted to see if they have any symptoms and be advised to isolate.
They do what they can. But as long as their is a stigma associated with alternative lifestyles, people will hide them at all cost. It's human nature.
samnsara
(17,650 posts)...just in case.
Igel
(35,374 posts)It's like "soda." There's bicarbonate of soda, baking soda, caustic soda, and diet soda.
S. Korea had contact tracing. They'd ask you who you were around. If you lied, you had criminal charges filed. To be tested for COVID, you first had to download an app that would monitor you going forward. They looked at phone records from before. They published the names of those infected and the names of likely contacts that they couldn't locate quickly.
Taiwan had contact tracing. Same business with phones and charges. And phone records. Who, where, when. But they also accessed your medical records for symptoms to see if maybe you needed testing. They'd contact those at your home address. Neighbors. They'd access tax records to see where you worked, assume you had been to work and test there, too.
Privacy? When somebody's life might be in danger, somebody's quibbling over privacy instead of social obligations?
It works better in places with a sense of civic duty. In the US, it'll be harder.
Many who insist that protesters have no right to assembly because of public safety issues--their rights kill people!--will suddenly find a much more substantial right to privacy in spite of public safety issues. And trouble'll be a-brewing if you say "your rights kill people!"