Not just no, but hell no
There is simply no way. Not happening.
And if I went, which isn't happening, yes I'd use a throwaway phone.
World Cup apps from the Qatari government collect more personal information than they need to, according to Germany's data protection agency, which this week warned football fans to only install the two apps "if it is absolutely necessary." Also: consider using a burner phone. The two apps are Ehteraz, a Covid-19 tracker from …
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Considering the local security/Police just almost arrested a Danish journalist live on air, I'd think it best not to do *anything* that might attract attention.
You'd think they'd have ALL got the memo about being on the world stage and being nice to everyone and not Business As Usual. I suspect we will be seeing multiple "mistakes" by the Qatari security and Police folks over the course of this event.
Even Blatter is saying giving this to Qatar was a mistake now. I wonder if there were any brown envelopes or nondescript suitcases involved in the decision process?
You wonder, really?
The German press talked extensively about the gifts that the various German soccer executives tried to smuggle back home from Katar. E.g., luxury watches in the case of former German Soccer Association president Theo Zwanziger or European Club Association chairman Karl-Heinz Rummenigge. The smarter members of the German delegation were not caught with $100'000 luxury watches, interpret that as you want. I'd expect that less flashy gifts have been transferred more discretely.
Imagine how blatant it must have been if even the Germans were caught with their bribes.
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> this is the same Qatar that
Err… no. Actually this is the Qatar that hosts and funds Al Jazeera, a 24 hour news station known for exposing US (and others) war crimes and whose offices and reporters have a habit of getting accidentally targeted.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2022/5/11/the-12-al-jazeera-journalists-killed-on-the-front-lines
While the CNIL is absolutely correct in pointing out the different privacy framework and practices between Qatar and France and that's something that travelers should definitely be aware of, I do find the editorialising a bit hypocritical.
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People had to have Ehteraz installed for a long time, during the pandemic. There was a lot of people working in Qatar to build the stadiums and everything around - many of them from Europe as well - all of them with Ehteraz on their phones if they wished to work (and many of them were sent there by the companies they work for, without many choices), and they discover it only now because of deep-pockets football fans who can stay at home and watch matches on TV if they don't like the tracking? Companies making money was fine, now that some politician and journalist wish to watch a ball kicked themselves, and boast about it on social media, it becomes an important issue?
Which is incredibly infuriating. When governments were trying to respond to a genuine emergency and get Covid apps out the door quickly we had Google and Apple grandstanding about what great defenders of privacy they were, and refusing to allow those apps. So we had to wait many moons for everyone to get together and get something designed.
As if Google gave a fuck about privacy...
But apparently they're happy to let Qatar bung its dodgy shit into their app stores for... Reasons. Possibly large numbers of foldable ones kept in brown envelopes...
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