Stop the Apple and Google contact tracing platform
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Re: Stop the Apple and Google contact tracing platform
#2They are trying to prevent both millions of deaths and and worst economic collapse in modern age. Privacy isn't as important. Fight this thing when corona-virus is over.
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#3Too late. If governments ever want to make a Bluetooth contact tracking app mandatory, they can already do so, and could have done so before this platform was created. All Google and Apple are doing is making it very marginally easier.
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#4The technology used for this is the same as for locating your lost device and takes care of privacy in a very smart way, more info: https://www.wired.com/story/apple-find-my-cryptography-bluet...
"Apple says an elaborate rotating key scheme will soon let you track down your stolen laptop, but not let anyone track you. Not even Apple."
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#5> In other words, certain governments or companies ... can create an app that report the fact that they have been close to a person of interest in the last few weeks.
So this assumes that any random app installed by a user will have open access to the contact database? That seems unlikely to me, but I have not read the full spec.
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#6There’s always ALWAYS some tech extremist who can never see the good, can only EVER see the dark shadows, the spooks, the spies, the nefarious dark forces.
For these guys it’s all a matter of sticking by their extremely dogmatic “principles”.
Wouldn’t matter if god himself turned up to do good deeds for all, they’d condemn his omnipotent presence for its ability to spy and break privacy.
They’ll always come out at times like this and whine.
I’m nit saying big tech companies aren’t privacy bashing personal data leeches - they are - it’s just tedious to listen to the whiny little privacy nuts come rolling out even when there’s a positive initiative on the table - “but it’s not positive! They’ll turn it to evil and we’ll never get it wound back!” Sheesh.
Re: Stop the Apple and Google contact tracing platform
#7They are trying to prevent both millions of deaths and and worst economic collapse in modern age. Privacy isn't as important. Fight this thing when corona-virus is over.
This is exactly the kind of dumb mentally the government wants, and you fell right into the trap. They always use situations like that to push bad stuff that won't be easy to ditch later...
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#8It seems well thought out from privacy side but I acknowledge their could be unintended consequences and bad actors that take advantage - but - I feel this is a price worth paying given the magnitude of the situation we are all in.
Re: Stop the Apple and Google contact tracing platform
#9They are trying to prevent both millions of deaths and and worst economic collapse in modern age. Privacy isn't as important. Fight this thing when corona-virus is over.
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Re: Stop the Apple and Google contact tracing platform
#10> In other words, certain governments or companies ... can create an app that report the fact that they have been close to a person of interest in the last few weeks. So this assumes that any random app installed by a user will have open access to the contact database? That seems unlikely to me, but I have not read the full spec.
Governments don't need it. The model suggested links nearby bluetooth mac addresses which get linked to the phones IMEI, and governments already have multitudes of legal ways to link names to IMEIs.