Sam Cam pisses off a load of covid tracking app users.

[Sebastian Cobb]

By using it to hawk her brand's covid masks.

https://247newsaroundtheworld.com/news/samantha-camerons-fashion-label-cefinn-accused-of-using-covid-19-tracking-app-to-promote-products/

Not sure why people would want to use the app, or why she thinks it's a good idea, or why anyone would want to buy her stuff, but there you go.

[Pinball]

It's delightfully callous and thoughtless, and of course ruthlessly opportunistic capitalism. I wonder what other fashion products she could really inappropriately link to Covid-19? Fashion coffins perhaps, say when the app informs her that someone's relative has died. Or when people are in proximity to a funeral home. Or she could send a get well soon advert when you're in hospital. Lots of ideas! But who cares as long as she gets rich, yeah?

Ambulance chasing in the targeted ad era.

"We see you've had an impact. Have you had an accident or just dropped your phone? If the former one of our advisors would be keen to help".

[Zetetic]

And this is in the context of the ZOE lot and their fellow travellers receiving a fucking ton of cash from various governments in the UK.

[idunnosomename]

Bet dav cam is laughin that everyones forgotten about how he lost a bluff and fucked the country down the toilet. All he has to pay for it is a few oink oink jokes.

Hope he dies.

[BlodwynPig]

That article is shit. Three photos, all the same, even one on top of the other. Embedded ads include one for "hot remove earwax" with a close up of a waxy bud, and "Prevent your children from becoming gay". Cancerous diseased depths of the internet.

[Johnny Yesno]

The story is also here: https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/fashion/samantha-cameron-coronavirus-symptom-tracker-app-cefinn-face-masks-b1134106.html

This must be sailing pretty close to the wind regarding GDPR, mustn't it? They didn't share the data with anyone else but it still must be made clear to those signing up what their data will be used for.

[Zetetic]

This also doesn't make any sense:
"It may also be shared with the the UK National Health Service."

1) There's no such thing and 2) if there was, it'd be made up of hundreds of different actual organisations.

The FAQ doesn't mention Sw*ns** University either, which is weird. (But they are mentioned in the Privacy Policy.)