An Insider Makes A Forceful Critique Of Government IT Management. Pretty Solid Stuff!

 This appeared last week. Technology lessons of COVIDSafe must be learned Dr Lesley Seebeck Contributor 17 August 2021 OPINION: As the government turns its thinking to a vaccination passport or similar, it would do well to learn some of the lessons from COVIDSafe. COVIDSafe illustrates the need for a good understanding of both policy intent and how the technology works. Aimed at ‘help[ing] assist health officials understand and contain the spread’ of COVID-19, the app is more than a benign study assistant. It uses people’s smartphone Bluetooth functionality as an incomplete proxy for distance between potential carriers and other people. Collected data provides an appr oximate, near real-time social network. That can be both helpful to understanding the spread of infection and highly invasive of privacy. Like all such data, stripped of context, it can be highly misleading and potentially open to abuse. So, kudos to the government, which realised it needed strong privacy... This is the initial part of the post - read more by clicking on the title of the article. David.
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