Posted on 04/13/2020 11:20:14 PM PDT by BenLurkin
Starting in May, Google and Apple are planning to update their phone operating systems with new APIs -- application programming interfaces -- that apps can use to track what other phones have been close by using Bluetooth signals. Recognized public health agencies would then use these APIs to build digital contact tracing apps, with some development help from Google and Apple.
The way the system is envisioned, when someone tests positive for Covid-19, local public health agencies will verify the test, then use these apps to notify anybody who may have been within 10 or 15 feet of them in the past few weeks. The identity of the person who tested positive would never be revealed to the companies or to other users; their identity would be tracked using scrambled codes on phones that are unlocked only when they test positive. Only public health authorities will be allowed access these APIs, the companies said. The two companies have drawn a line in the sand in one area: Governments will not be able to require its citizens to use contact-tracing software built with these APIs — users will have to opt-in to the system, senior representatives said on Monday.
The more people in a region who download the area’s contract tracing app, the more effective it’s going to be at identifying people who may have been infected. To succeed, then, the companies and public health officials will need to persuade people to trust them with their data -- which is why they are emphasizing opting-in as a key component of the software. Users who don’t want to participate can stop, delete the apps and tell the software to stop tracing them, an Apple representative said.
Apple and Google said that they could shut down the system region-by-region when the pandemic slows.
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...and yet government CAN force people to stay in their homes.
this IS NOT FREEDOM
Riiiight, because systems are never breached and data compromised. No thanks...
HIPPA
Sucks for them that so many of us refuse to “do” iPhag type phones.
No tracking for you!
nor was obamacare
Yep- never before were we, as free Americans, forced to bu anything- we could, if we wanted, live totally off grid and never have to buy anything- as free Citizens, noone could force us to purchase anything- but roberts violated our constitution and changed all that
Thankfully cooler heads prevailed and the mandate to puchase it under penalty of law for refusing to do so was removed-
Funny. I NEVER paid for it. 8 yrs I waited for the irs Gestapo to send me a letter abd even checked my bank acct just in case. Nothing. Mandate my ass.
I smell a lawsuit coming because these guys have said “opt in” before and it became mandatory, with apologies later uttered that “It’s part of the OS and there really isn’t a way to decouple that once it’s in”
You can trust Google and Apple as much as you trust the government.
Basically, in a nutshell, as I understand it, Google/Apple will be asking you to release/waive your HIPAA rights to a third party (themselves).
I think this action is worth considering busting up both companies for.
But that’s just me.
I thought Bronc0 was supposed to send YOU a check for $2500 every year.
Does this seem creepy, or is it just me? I feel like I’m in one of those future dystopia movies.
But bringing back the BodyMortgagers mandate and penal-ty will. No coincidence.
I’m already a couple of O/S levels behind.
This will be just one more.
The missing key word here is: Yet
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