Here in Europe, they're attempting to do contact tracing through apps.

The apps are voluntary, they don't force you to do it.

So there's not a huge user base, but there's pretty high user base high enough apparently I'm using

one called Corona Warn app and when I open it up today it tells me I've had two

encounters with low-risk people for coronavirus.

And what the app tells me is that sometime in the past week,

my Bluetooth on my phone

has talked to the Bluetooth on another person's phone

who was later tested positive for

Corona. Now the app tells me because their diagnoses were so much later than the

time our phones talk to each other, it doesn't recommend I get tested or quarantine or anything like that.

Coincidentally I have been tested three times now for the coronavirus I've been negative

every time so far.

Touch Wood that doesn't mean that I'm immune or anything like that.

The reason I'm sharing this with you is because this app I think is interesting and

for a lot of people it's very scary. If there are private companies, public companies, if the government has access to your health

information, what could they do with that? Well, they could force you to lock yourself

in your room. They could not hire you for a job. and that's not just coronavirus what if it's

diabetes what if it's a heart condition what about if it's cancer so many different

conditions that could cause big problems for people. Again, I'm not a privacy person personally,

but I believe in it for everyone else.

I mentioned that today because the topic of our podcast

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