Canada’s COVID Alert App Needs to be Shut Down. Here’s Why. | by Bianca Wylie | Apr, 2022 | Medium

Tech Experimentation, Political Consequences, Technosolutionist Policy

Canada’s COVID Alert App Needs to be Shut Down. Here’s Why. Bianca Wylie 8 min read · Apr 18, 2022 -- 1 Listen Share Tech Experimentation, Political Consequences, Technosolutionist Policy Over the course of the weekend, a fellow tech community member shared the unfortunate and common news that his family had contracted Covid. He was asking if there was anywhere to report their cases, and in doing so mentioned that Canada’s COVID Alert app required PCR test results to log it there. This flipped a switch for me because I knew that for the past few months, the general public couldn’t access PCR t

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