Security News > 2021 > October > Reg scribe spends week being watched by government Bluetooth wristband, emerges to more surveillance

Accompanying documentation explained that the gateway can measure distance to the wristband.

Since the alternative was to serve the quarantine in a cramped and expensive hotel room with my kids, I was prepared to allow the app the access it wanted.

Another "Fun" part of our week was the gateway's endlessly flashing light.

As far as I could tell, the gateway and wristband handled the distance just fine.

All things considered, after hotel quarantine and an eight-week strict quarantine measure called "Circuit breaker" in the first year of the pandemic, the week did not feel like an undue penance for our trip abroad. It did feel out of step with emerging global travel trends.

On the last day of quarantine I received a phone call around 4pm. A government representative asked me to leave the gateways in front of the house for collection.

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