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posture gymnastics. a symtomatologic collection of radical mediocracy in german journalism covering cultural politics of digital technologies in the year 2020.
using metaphors by one of the long standing examples of analogue mass media (radio), completely missing the point of private public partnerships (telekom) as a source of a systematic sclerotification of infrastructure (copper vs. fibre) https://translate.google.com/translate?hl=&sl=de&tl=en&u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.sueddeutsche.de%2Fdigital%2Fdigitalisierung-politik-kommentar-1.5112615
in the mirror cabinet of attitudes. defending data protection but not understanding a thing about how the app works, and where it particularily fails, in which favour it is operating, and which infrastructures it allows to let grow in the backend. https://bit.ly/398I816
data protection, a truly germanic branch of digital culture. here an expert takes a chance, missing the moment to propose the equality of persons and places in contact tracing, where with very few updates one could achieve to detect clusters anonymously. https://bit.ly/3ld6aus
digital chauvinism of tracing apps. while the US has one of the highest rates of corona deaths world wide and data monopolies continue to grow their digital liberty NGOs blame asian countries for fighting the pandemic with epidemiologic surveillance apps.
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3 minutes of a (german) interview got me triggered to write a reply of how IMO utterly twisted a certain kind of rethoric of pirate party type "digital solutionism" is wired. https://www.inforadio.de/programm/schema/sendungen/int/202012/10/corona-warn-app-datenschutz-domscheit-berg-interview.html
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coronawarnapp as digital placebo (draft)
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coronawarnapp as digital placebo (draft)
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manifacturing confirmation bias. the german obsession with data protection creates a antagonistic debate resulting in isolated placebo products such as the CWA slowing down interoperability within a larger pandemic software architecture. (SORMAS/DEMIS) https://www.daserste.de/information/politik-weltgeschehen/mittagsmagazin/videos/corona-warn-app-video-100.html
finally a blog format by tagesspiegl (in exchange of an disposable email address) with some better news at last, about the main pitfalls (fundamental design contradictions). why does it need a new law to apply infection law to the digital domain? https://background.tagesspiegel.de/gesundheit/corona-app-mit-automatischer-warnfunktion
after the greens have suggested to fully redesign the central use case of "free will" reporting positive infections, which turns the #warnapp into a health risk, the SPD hints on new laws, to make sure infection law also applies to the digital domain. https://www.tagesspiegel.de/wirtschaft/corona-warn-app-und-datenschutz-brauchen-wir-die-automatische-weitergabe/26731210.html
if you do a clinical PCR test there is no opt out option from reporting to the health authority since this would defeat the purpose of pandemic control. the app debate created a false "virtual freedom" from medical material conditions. https://www.rnd.de/politik/corona-warn-app-verbesserung-soll-nicht-zu-weniger-datenschutz-fuhren-NQRF5L6M45BTLOFXDGLDLDOZJA.html
stationary use of a #warnapp opens up possiblities of backtracing recursive contacts and superspreader hot spots anonymously. use cases for people can be extended to data types of places and events, while cluster recognition needs changes in the ENF layer. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-020-2923-3
after january 2021 DEMIS, the german digital reporting infrastructure for positive corona tests will be mandatory. a radically simplified data flow for the #warnapp would anonymously verify diagnostic keys against this api, which is ready to be tested now.
https://gematik-ext.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/DSKB/pages/76677328/DEMIS-Adapter+Release+Notes#Version-1.6.3-(15.12.2020)
https://gematik-ext.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/DSKB/pages/76677328/DEMIS-Adapter+Release+Notes#Version-1.6.3-(15.12.2020)
good thread on the FOSS alternatives of the CWA, largely ignored in the debate of the lousy endorsement by the CCC of Gapple in the name of 'decentralisation'. (german) https://twitter.com/CorneliusRoemer/status/1340341992061087746
