Reply to post: Re: Open to abuse

UK COVID-19 contact-tracing app data may be kept for 'research' after crisis ends, MPs told

Fonant

Re: Open to abuse

This is the biggest problem: the users are expected to reliably and honestly say if they "think" they have COVID-19 symptoms.

Even honest people may have infectious COVID-19 with no symptoms, and symptoms might look like COVID-19 but be something else.

The false positives and false negatives will be significant.

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