COVIDSafe app scepticism

[Drop_Bear]

From Facebook:

I’m deeply worried about our government’s behaviour. By all that I see, the COVIDSafe app is unlikely to work as advertised. Bluetooth proximity detection is neither accurate enough nor reliable enough. Even if the app worked, it’s unlikely to substantially improve contact tracing.

So why is Morrison pushing it so hard?

If I was a wannabe dictator with a background in marketing, my next move might be to report that the app isn’t improving contact tracing. Of course, I’d blame the people who haven’t installed it.

Then make it compulsory.

And add GPS tracking (which also isn’t accurate enough to be useful for contact tracing).

Then round up everyone who doesn’t have the app active on their 'phone and put them in work camps. With signs over the gates saying cute thing like “work sets you free”.

A bit conspiratorial, but Morrison has been characterised as a control freak. At best, COVIDSafe is a form of security theatre, or so it seems.

Security theater may not always have real monetary costs but by definition provides no security benefits, or the benefits are so minimal as to not be worth the cost.

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@mark_m

Using an app - selfless?

Pandering to government marketing - gullible?

@mark_m

the right thing

Declaring one thing “right” (and, by inference, any other wrong) - manipulative?