[dmurray]

Any reason for me not to use this? As someone living in Ireland who uses a smartphone and whose security model doesn't include worrying about targeted attacks by nation-level actors, but would like to avoid everything else.

From skimming respectable non-technical sources it's apparently not very invasive of my privacy, and won't kill my battery. But this is likely copied from the HSE press release, I'd like to hear the same from an independent reviewer.

[disgruntledphd2]

There is absolutely no reason not to use this.

In fact, using this app will be helpful, as long as enough people do it. So you should definitely use it.

[dmurray]

To answer my own question, the top comment from urschrei links to an analysis from the Irish Council for Civil Liberties and Digital Rights Ireland, giving it a "C+ grade" on its adherence to "experts' best practice principles regarding government surveillance technologies".

[raverbashing]

Yeah and that "analysis" is more nitpicking and cheap criticism rather than actual issues

Because complaining that a Covid contact tracing app includes symptom tracing is just ridiculous