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The 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."
They 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...
They 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.
> 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.
They 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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They 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...
There has never been a situation like this in the modern age. Last time it happened 50 million people died.
You can stay safe by putting your phone in a Faraday cage if you must.
Too 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.
That’s been in place for some time.