Anyone else getting this?
Yeah, getting it on my Android phone in So Cal. It was a bit pesky too as I had to dismiss it twice.
Scam?
Be VERY cautious when you receive an unsolicited text/email.
Scammers/Spammers are active and leveraging COVID hysteria.
Reply? You just verified your phone/email is active and they sell that info to other scammers/spammers.
No such thing yet in PRV - peoples republic of virginia
We’re lucky. An operating system update failed early this year on our phone and that update was a prerequisite for the next update so that couldn’t be done either. We’re 4 Android OS updates behind so they have no way of pushing this crap on us.
I’m in NorCal, too, and got it 30 minutes ago. I read through the disclose and about privacy and said “Decline.” It said they don’t use GPS and don’t track your location. Then how would they know if I’ve been close to somebody else who they also don’t track?
My trust levels for nearly everybody and everything are near zero because of the crooked “election” and COVID.
ONLY those who CHOSE to TURN ON EXPOSURE NOTIFICATIONS.
Got here in Humboldt on my Android this morning too.
Not likely, I refused to enable that function.
Central California here. No notices yet.
The only “emergency alert” that I cannot disable on my old android phone is a Presidential Alert. They are found under Settings / Applications/ Messages/ Emergency Alerts on my phone which is admittedly Android 6. Android 6 was released in 2015. That is like an 8 track tape player for your car to phone afficianodos.
Of course I still have my HTC PPC-6700, my first true smart phone which came out two years before the first iPhone. It was much more capable than the first iPhone because it had 3G built in and a plethora of Windows Mobile 5 apps like Word, Excel, texting, and email... Compared to the almost completely worthless first iPhone which was 2G only and couldn’t even send a text. So here we go again. LOL!!!
Paging Swordmaker for how to keep your iPhone from hassling you with Covid exposure notifications.
I never get notifications.
I turned off the kidnapping notifications, weather emergencies, state and national emergencies. Can’t turn off presidential notifications though.
Great reason to leave your phone at home when you go to Church.
You will give them (whoever they are) another method of tracking your movements.
I do not trust.
Why would you want this?
Did you want this for the common cold, also a COVID infection, or the flu?
Haven’t seen that in NC. I’d think it would deploy everywhere at once.
My phone has tracking turned off.
In the iPhone there is a setting to notify you when Exposure Notifications is available. I have it turned on, but have not received a message that the service is now available.