Luckily neither Scheuer nor Spahn were involved with the CWA. Check the source code, it’s actually really neat.

Doesn’t help with the rest of the fuckups, obviously. Significantly worse is that now everyone has started switching to the luca app, which actually is a dystopian nightmare as it stores everything on its servers, forever, and sells everything to ad partners.

A quick check reveals a few things to me: a) the only thing the CWA seems to do to "protect" privacy is to send fake queries from time to time, which doesn't remove the real ones b) its 16 years and up without parental consent which implies that it does not meet the privacy requirements for children and c) it involves Google, which is one dystopian tech company too much for my comfort.