iamaspinner
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Apologies if this topic has been already mentioned in a different thread but after a search I couldn't find anything related to it.
I thought it would be a good idea to turn on the location history in my (mobile) phone to aid contact tracing should I be diagnosed with or merely start showing covid-19 symptoms. Contact tracing has also been mentioned by the experts more recently in relation to asymptomatic cases.
Once this feature is turned on it would be very easy to quickly view all your movements including length of time spent at locations with a few taps of your fingers. Who doesn't go to the toilet with their phone?
Because of the current lock down this may not be so relevant for the majority of us right now, but there are still some people out there working in different places on a daily basis.
It will be more important when they start to gradually lift the restrictions and we begin to go back to our more social lives.
I think that at this moment in time the pros of recording my every movement far outweigh my concerns about privacy and data protection (which I'm sure is not very private due to the mere fact of having a mobile phone turned on).
I thought it would be a good idea to turn on the location history in my (mobile) phone to aid contact tracing should I be diagnosed with or merely start showing covid-19 symptoms. Contact tracing has also been mentioned by the experts more recently in relation to asymptomatic cases.
Once this feature is turned on it would be very easy to quickly view all your movements including length of time spent at locations with a few taps of your fingers. Who doesn't go to the toilet with their phone?
Because of the current lock down this may not be so relevant for the majority of us right now, but there are still some people out there working in different places on a daily basis.
It will be more important when they start to gradually lift the restrictions and we begin to go back to our more social lives.
I think that at this moment in time the pros of recording my every movement far outweigh my concerns about privacy and data protection (which I'm sure is not very private due to the mere fact of having a mobile phone turned on).