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Comment by cm2187

Well, let's keep in mind it is decentralised, so only people who have been in contact with you can correlate it with your location at a given time in the past. Not the whole world nor a central authority.

And even is someone goes to that extent to track your identity down, I am not sure that local de-anonymisation is a problem. This is not something like HIV. I don't think there is any social stigma to catching the coronavirus. If you catch it you should self-isolate, and it will be obvious to the people around you that you got it. And if you don't want to self-isolate and want to hide it, what is the point to self declare that you got contaminated on the app in the first place?

parent cm2187 6 years ago

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