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Apple Registers AppleCoronavirus.com Domain Name
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Why hasn’t anyone mention concern about the tracking technology? (For COVID-19, or anything else.) Hopefully Apple will use differential privacy effectively. Google hasn’t had any interest in implementing such privacy?
Might be an appropriate name for the next macOS update, given the way Catalina has been going.
If Apple can somehow test for the virus with your phone then expect Apple's stock (AAPL) to go to $1000 a share! I think Amazon is now doing medical research also! We cannot wait for the Biotech, we need Silicon Valley to help out also!
Amazon is secretly working on a cure for the common cold
The company has hired scientists and engineers to work on the effort, which sits under its top secret research and development group called Grand Challenge.
I fear for the worst, when the idiots here in England figure out that it's not 5G towers that are responsible for COVID-19, and not the Bill+Melissa Gates Foundation, but obviously Apple who is practically admitting responsibility (at least if your IQ is under 60, but we have plenty of those here in England).
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And differential privacy wouldn't work. It works well if you have things like "312,000 iPhone users visited Disneyland in Florida, but we don't know exactly which ones", or "207 users read your advert, so it must have been rather boring, but we don't know exactly which ones". For this application, you want to know _exactly_ whether there was an infected person near you.
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Well, absolutely not. This is not about privacy. This is about warning you if you have been near anyone who has COVID-19. Your decision what you valid higher - your privacy or your life.
And differential privacy wouldn't work. It works well if you have things like "312,000 iPhone users visited Disneyland in Florida, but we don't know exactly which ones", or "207 users read your advert, so it must have been rather boring, but we don't know exactly which ones". For this application, you want to know _exactly_ whether there was an infected person near you.
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I generally don't name call online but the idiots you are referring to are truly stupid. That said, if it is 5G that causes COVID-19 and the next iPhones will have 5G, Apple will need a website to facilitate the upcoming court settlement... /s
My point is, how many will they register as a defensive move! This is a temporary solution to a permanent problem. While reading something on NamePros, I came across similar news - Facebook registered some 500 domains related to Facebook and coronavirus, to avoid spreading of rumors and safeguarding against negative elements like scammers and cybersquatters who have come up.
My only point being, how many! I think a permanent solution is that the registrars themselves block the coronavirus related domain names. Sure, it has its downsides. But that's a tradeoff.
Thoughts?
My only point being, how many! I think a permanent solution is that the registrars themselves block the coronavirus related domain names. Sure, it has its downsides. But that's a tradeoff.
Thoughts?