Today's old news concerns a little spy-app created by the german government itself, the corona warning app. The idea was that citizens voluntary downloaded it and used it to avoid infected citizens while having a map of risks. You can imagine how many privacy laws this neat little thing breaks, but since it's voluntary, it's marginally legal.
Turns out, almost no one used that thing, to the dismay of Big Daddy State, with two politicans stating that the app can only effective if about 80% of the population actually use it. Now the state wants to make downloading the app mandatory, for the safety of its citizens of course. Not because it would make collecting date and tracking citizens easier.
Die deutsche Corona-Warn-App gilt als Erfolg. Millionen Nutzer luden die App innerhalb weniger Tage herunter. Doch renommierten Ökonomen zufolge reicht das bei weitem noch nicht aus. Auf freiwilliger Basis sei eine hohe Wirksamkeit nicht zu erreichen, sagt die Wirtschaftsweise Veronika Grimm.
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EDIT: I'll be honest, this reads like some bad fisher building a dam to force fishes out of the water.