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.
(Excerpt) Read more at cnbc.com ...
So the government can force us to stay at home and force us to buy health insurance both under threat of government “penalty” but this person thinks they can not “force” us to use a goggle or apple product? Where has this person been?
The government has simply gone totalitarian and it happened so slowly, the ‘frogs’ of this society did not want to accept that they were being boiled.
JoMa
I think HIPAA was created to prevent ostracizing stigmatized HIV positive gays and iv drug users. Billions spent and more government. No downside for Dems.
also ended border/international health checks for same reason. HIV was the first virus with civil rights protections
HIV was Fauci’s Baby ....
12 Apr: BBC: Coronavirus: UK confirms plan for its own contact tracing app
By Leo Kelion
https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-52263244
14 Apr: ABC Australia: Coronavirus lockdowns could end in months if Australians are willing to have their movements monitored
By political editor Andrew Probyn
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-04-14/coronavirus-app-government-wants-australians-to-download/12148210
9 Apr updated 11 Apr: Bloomberg: 5G Virus Conspiracy Theory Fueled by Coordinated Effort
By Ryan Gallagher; With assistance by Alyza Sebenius
(Marc Owen Jones, a researcher at Hamad bin Khalifa University in Qatar) said the campaign uses a strategy similar to Russia’s Internet Research Agency, which was behind a disinformation campaign during the 2016 U.S. presidential campaign...
On Tuesday, Google’s YouTube said that it would ban all videos linking 5G technology to coronavirus, saying that “any content that disputes the existence or transmission of Covid-19” would now be in violation of YouTube policies...
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-04-09/covid-19-link-to-5g-technology-fueled-by-coordinated-effort
I have no opinion about 5G but, the bits I’ve seen online, seemed to only suggest 5G signal could somehow suppress a immune systems, making it easier for people to get infected or something. this article makes out conspiracy theorists say 5G causes covid.
“...the bits I’ve seen online, seemed to only suggest 5G signal could somehow suppress a immune systems, making it easier for people to get infected or something.”
It’s bs. You got zero to worry about, health wise, from 5G. Serious disinformation.
many Americans, daily give out an enormous amount of private information through social media and our on-line habits...there will be millions who think this is a good thing.
Yeah, no, nothing personal, but I’m not going to watch some YouTube vid from some rando about 5G.
But if you want to post a link to a technical article explaining the physiological effects of 5G on actual live subjects (or tissue), at representative frequencies and power densities actually used, I’ll be glad to read and comment.
FYI, I have the actual education and experience to understand. Including measuring and studying RF effects at various frequencies and power densities in humans, and working with the FDA and FCC on Specific Absorbtion Rate (SAR, look it up) limits in MRI’s, and establishing US standards for same.
(Yes, ‘those” MRIs. The ones people use everyday. While working at Hopkins (yes, “that” Hopkins), with some of the original inventors of the MRI. Trippy.)
So I kinda know what I’m talking about. There are zero damaging effects to people from 5G cellphones or licensed local broadcast transmitters. It’s bullshiite.
That vid is an Aussie EE who thinks all the 5G hysteria is bullshit...he’s a sharp fellow.
Oh, sorry!!!!
I assumed it was someone who wears tinfoil hats. My bad!
Having to opt out is quite different from having to opt in.
like i said- thankfully cooler heads prevailed in most states- and the constitution won the day-
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State penalties: Massachusetts, Washington, DC and New Jersey have penalties in 2019. California and Rhode Island will have penalties as of 2020.
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AND IM IN CA. go figger..
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