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Privacy activists prep legal challenge against UK plan to keep coronavirus contact-tracing data for two decades

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Re: Democracy in action!

>The incubation period for this disease is well established. It is less than twenty years. It is less than ten years. It is less than one year. It is, by all measurements, much less than one month.

Oh dear, letting your emotion think rather than use your head...

It doesn't matter what the incubation period is, it is most certainly shorter than the length of time the social networking data contained in the data set will be useful to researchers.

For clarity, I use the term "social network" in the sense used by researchers such as Nickolas A. Christakis and James H. Fowler.

I anticipate very little research of any real value will come out of the data collected by the Apple/Google app.

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