- Re: The proposal to use an App for contact tracing Archived Message
Posted by Cobbett
on April 29, 2020, 11:06 am, in reply to "Re: The proposal to use an App for contact tracing"
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Of course, any mobile phone is a surveilance tool with or without the app. Even with location services "turned off", telemetry is still shared unless it's a phone with a removable battery or it's put in a Faraday pouch. "The system uses on-board radios on your device to transmit an anonymous ID over short ranges — using Bluetooth beaconing. Servers relay your last 14 days of rotating IDs to other devices, which search for a match. A match is determined based on a threshold of time spent and distance maintained between two devices [...] The second phase of the project is to bring even more efficiency and adoption to the tracing tool by bringing it to the operating system level. There would be no need to download an app, users would just opt-in to the tracing right on their device. The public health apps would continue to be supported, but this would address a much larger spread of users." https://techcrunch.com/2020/04/10/apple-and-google-are-launching-a-joint-covid-19-tracing-tool/ It will be interesting to see if the remaining % of people who are not using the app will be targeted by the govt or that it is a sufficiently low number not to worry them too much. |