Ahh yes, downloading an update that has a feature you can completely turn off is tyranny.
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iOS 13.7 Now Available With Support for Exposure Notifications Express
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Ahh yes, downloading an update that has a feature you can completely turn off is tyranny.
@Username32123 Only you get the notification since your exposure to the positive user is stored locally. That information is yours to do with.
You also won't know who tested positive or where the exposure happened, but at least you can take measures to mitigate your spread and get tested right away.
You also won't know who tested positive or where the exposure happened, but at least you can take measures to mitigate your spread and get tested right away.
It's more complicated than that. Health providers as well as manual contract tracers need to be educated and trained on the system. They also need the codes to verify a positive test.
Are you aware of how much data was just collected about you when you posted this comment on a public forum?
Dude...cell phones could be tracked since they first became a thing many years ago. This isn't anything new.
I'd suggest researching how this contact tracing actually works. It's completely anonymous and no privacy is lost.
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Nobody gets notified about the identity of who was exposed to the known case. Your iPhone is simply reading the list of tokens that have declared a positive case. If any of those tokens with COVID match the tokens you came across, your phone alerts you. It's such a simple and elegant solution to maintain privacy while also letting millions of people know that they might've been exposed.
You lost me at location... exposure tracking does nothing of the sort. Please take the time to truly understand this feature (which is OPT IN)
Posting on a public forum... sure thats FAR more private. Perhaps you should read this, this used cellphone data, NOT location services.
Cellphone data shows how Las Vegas is “gambling with lives” across the country — ProPublica
Las Vegas casinos, open for months now, are a likely hotbed for the spread of COVID-19. For many reasons, contact tracing has proved next to impossible as tourists return to homes across the U.S.
It isn't the functionality rather what States will do with it.
Here in California the government has a habit of leaking / selling / "other using" information it gets from users.
If this was an Apple/Google only thing, anon-ed, it could be of some help.
An example of what could go wrong ...
North Dakota’s COVID-19 app has been sending data to Foursquare and Google
A new report from Jumbo Privacy finds that a coronavirus contact-tracing app is sharing location data with Foursquare and an advertising ID with Google.
www.fastcompany.com
Being opt-in, it's off by default. So... yeah, tyranny.
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Interestingly when I just installed this, the option was installed as Opt-Out, not Opt-In.
It's not really an app but a whole built in API/framework. (Generally OTA updates are often used by many and those are generally delta updates that are typically much smaller.)
Are you referring to the "Availability Alerts" option? That is something different, it's to alert you if/when the feature is available in your area. Contact tracing and notifications is still opt-in.
So this is your last iPhone, then.
I don't understand why the state matters in using this. Let anyone that wants to use it, use it.
You think all those things are new after 13.4.1 😆? Nothing to do with tyranny, just trying target you with the best advertisements.
This feature requires iPhone to access the “local” health agency which is supposed to keep track of verified positive COVID-19 tests. It’s these health agencies that publish the list of positive tokens. Otherwise, there’s no way for iPhone to know which contacts had COVID-19 positive tests. Apple and Google purposely created a schema that didn’t permit individual users declare themselves positive (to prevent abuse). Only official positive results are transmitted to everyone.
If that's your concern, you should be on version 0.0.0
I've noticed that too...literally EVERY article.
yep me too. I laugh everytime. My guess is trying to get to the 100 posts to become a macrumors regular user
Not very useful for me right now. The other thing I thought was odd, when I tried to turn enable it, it needed to have me tell it where I was (region and state). I have location services turned on, why couldn’t it figure out where I was located based on location services.
It's verging on spam....I may report!
Hell - Cali can't decide on the design, who will develop it, and who'll they'll sell the info to.
This could be a while out here.