About two weeks ago, I discussed the police use in Mainz of the Luca App (the App that would record location and personal data relating to Covid). You can backtrack, using the infected guy's info.....finding a dozen-odd people who were near enough/close....that probably ought to be tested.
I'd call it a tracking diary. It's been around since 2020, and probably downloaded on half the smart-phones in the country. The selling point, which I would suggest....is that the government wrote a security regulation that said that intelligence services/police...could not use the personal data.
So in the case in Mainz....they had a case where they needed witnesses and this was the only method left....using the Luca data. Illegal? Yes, and the prosecutor has said he was sorry for doing it.
Today, via N-TV....we learned that there are more of these cases. Maybe a hundred episodes where the private data was breached by the police.
Worrying the general public? I would suggest that people will ask questions.....which the political establishment can't answer. Some folks might delete the App. It wouldn't shock me if by mid-summer.....a truth-commission gets started and admits several hundred episodes where data was breached for the good of society.
Personally, I wouldn't care if there were a judge in the middle of this, and quietly approved a very limited use of the data in serious cases (say murder or assault).
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