Matt N
TS Member
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- Shambhala (PortAventura Park)
I do understand privacy concerns, but as others have said, it is nigh on impossible to not have companies store data on you in this day and age.
Unless you quite literally shun all modern technology and go off-grid to live in a field or something, having your data collected and stored in some capacity is impossible to avoid. You would be absolutely astonished by how much tech companies know about you if you so much as use a smartphone or tablet, use social media or the internet or even know and interact someone who does (I once heard a story about a man who'd never had a Facebook account in his life requesting the information Facebook had stored on him; they still knew an absolutely staggering amount about him!). Data is extracted and used absolutely everywhere in this day and age, so unless you exit modern-day society, move somewhere remote and cease all contact with civilisation, you will always have data extracted from you in some capacity.
With this in mind, I would personally have no concerns about being connected to a potentially life saving alert system that has already been successfully implemented in other countries. And as the government does not extract your data directly from this system anyway, as explained by others above, the privacy concerns here are far less pressing than in numerous other staples of modern day life, in my view. Besides, laws like GDPR make sure that the government and other institutions have to store people's data in a secure manner and not use it maliciously, so any data that is taken will not come to any harm.
There is definitely a valid conversation to be had about privacy, but given that big data is so prevalent in modern day society regardless of whether you sign up to the pilot or not, I definitely feel that the benefits of this alert system vastly outweigh the drawbacks. I certainly have no concerns about being involved in the pilot.
Unless you quite literally shun all modern technology and go off-grid to live in a field or something, having your data collected and stored in some capacity is impossible to avoid. You would be absolutely astonished by how much tech companies know about you if you so much as use a smartphone or tablet, use social media or the internet or even know and interact someone who does (I once heard a story about a man who'd never had a Facebook account in his life requesting the information Facebook had stored on him; they still knew an absolutely staggering amount about him!). Data is extracted and used absolutely everywhere in this day and age, so unless you exit modern-day society, move somewhere remote and cease all contact with civilisation, you will always have data extracted from you in some capacity.
With this in mind, I would personally have no concerns about being connected to a potentially life saving alert system that has already been successfully implemented in other countries. And as the government does not extract your data directly from this system anyway, as explained by others above, the privacy concerns here are far less pressing than in numerous other staples of modern day life, in my view. Besides, laws like GDPR make sure that the government and other institutions have to store people's data in a secure manner and not use it maliciously, so any data that is taken will not come to any harm.
There is definitely a valid conversation to be had about privacy, but given that big data is so prevalent in modern day society regardless of whether you sign up to the pilot or not, I definitely feel that the benefits of this alert system vastly outweigh the drawbacks. I certainly have no concerns about being involved in the pilot.
