Apple, Google ban location tracking in apps using their contact-tracing system

Post by sneak » Tue, May 05, 2020, 2:21 AM UTC

munificent wrote: post #177

taywrobel wrote: post #116

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Is it a realistic expectation that we have no one working on smart bombs/weapons technology in general? I’d love to be in the utopia world where there is no war and the entire planet gets along. But even the US has political bipolar disorder, so we’re a looooong way from global peace. I do think we spend an absurd and inappropriate amount on defense, but as long as we are forced to develop weapons due to the global g…

I don't believe it is unethical to work on weapons technology any more than I believe it is unethical to be member of the armed forces. We live in a world with bad actors, so some amount of work on defense is necessary for survival. However, I also believe you are responsible for the consequences of the technology you create. If you decide to work on smart bombs and because of a bad government those end up killing in…

Post by crushthecurve » Tue, May 05, 2020, 2:22 AM UTC

bjz_ wrote: post #251

azinman2 wrote: post #239

I have to say, working at Apple and knowing all the hard work that goes into this and making sure your data stays private while also being able to combat this disease, it's very frustrating to read a lot of the comments here. I can understand why the public is skeptical, but I feel like as a society we've swung so far away from institutional trust that now nothing good can actually emerge. The anti-vax movement is a…

As an Australian who has privacy concerns their government's COVIDSafe app (see https://github.com/vteague/contactTracing ), and hence not installing it, I'm really thankful that Apple and Google are pushing this model of contact tracing. We still don't know if digital contact tracing is effective in practice, but it's still important to try, but we can do this in a way that avoids giving governments with worrying au…

Post by [deleted] » Tue, May 05, 2020, 2:25 AM UTC

azinman2 wrote: post #239

I have to say, working at Apple and knowing all the hard work that goes into this and making sure your data stays private while also being able to combat this disease, it's very frustrating to read a lot of the comments here. I can understand why the public is skeptical, but I feel like as a society we've swung so far away from institutional trust that now nothing good can actually emerge. The anti-vax movement is a…

Post by parkovski » Tue, May 05, 2020, 2:28 AM UTC

ghaff wrote: post #161

PaulRobinson wrote: post #99

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They mentioned a few weeks back that the end goal would be if you had the app it could act as a virtual health passport and you’d be allowed to go out shopping, go to work and the pub, etc. And without it? Stay at home. So yeah, technically voluntary, but, y‘know...

Install it on a secondary phone? Of course it all depends on how serious the government is and how hard you are willing to work to circumvent controls.

Post by tathougies » Tue, May 05, 2020, 2:32 AM UTC

azinman2 wrote: post #239

I have to say, working at Apple and knowing all the hard work that goes into this and making sure your data stays private while also being able to combat this disease, it's very frustrating to read a lot of the comments here. I can understand why the public is skeptical, but I feel like as a society we've swung so far away from institutional trust that now nothing good can actually emerge. The anti-vax movement is a…