It can only be voluntary
I have followed StayAway since May. And when António Costa proposed making the app compulsory, it struck me as strange straight away: it would easily run into trouble in Parliament, besides being impossible to implement.
Last week, when António Costa announced a bill for Parliament with tighter rules against Covid-19, one thing jumped out straight away: the prime minister wanted to make the StayAway app compulsory in some circumstances.
The idea immediately struck people as strange. Besides being authoritarian, the measure is impossible to implement.
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AI translation from the Portuguese. First published in ECO on 22 October 2020.