More Countries Implement Apple/Google API in Contact Tracing Apps, Including Germany, Poland, and Saudi Arabia

[chucker23n1]

Yes they have. It’s called Health. Dump the API and simply add COVID-19 proximity as a metric. On the  Watch, put in a fourth ring that fills up after 24 hours of no close contact with another infected person. Take lab results that are HealthKit compatible (like Quest Diagnostics) and integrate its positive or negative result into the Bluetooth broadcast beacon, eliminating the need to self-report to the Health app. All of this is easily anonymous; privacy is what  excels at. How many lives lost by NOT implementing this?

And now the burden is on Apple to make a list of trusted testing labs? Worldwide? Within a few weeks? And with a high likelihood of legal liabilities?

When, instead, they can just defer to local authorities that already have such lists, and answer to the citizens?
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Turn on proximity tracking and alerts for infections verified by labs linked into phones. Quest Diagnostics has most of the infection data. They are not a health agency. And tracing can be done anonymously.

You've just answered why that's a terrible idea.
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The whole concept of contact tracing, is an invasion of personal privacy. There are numerous doctors coming forward now from multiple countries, pointing out some very obvious lies surrounding the legitimacy and/or the actual "threat" level of the "virus". You can even compare yourself, by going on your government websites and looking at death rates from previous years, compared to this years. If there were an actual pandemic, how do you explain the death rates being +/- 1% of where they were previously?

For starters, I can "explain" that by it being completely wrong. Excess mortality has been clearly measurable.

 

[ChromeAce]

It’s as though none of you have ever used the Health app. Open it. Click the Browse section at the bottom. Scroll all the way down. Tap “Add Account.” There are literally HUNDREDS of medical networks, testing facilities, and providers ready to transfer all your records into the phone provided you have an account with ANY of them. So all this talk about massive amounts of “setup” needed is BS. It’s already up and running, unlike federal or state governments which do not keep such records on you, nor should they.

 

[ian87w]

While a recent poll suggests that 70% of Americans refuse to use a contact tracing app-

More than 7 in 10 Americans won’t use contact-tracing apps, data shows

That’s a decline from April, when only 1 in 2 rejected the idea.

arstechnica.com

Probably because many US states decided to do their own thing that are potentially more privacy intrusive, instead of using Apple/Google's API that will still ensure user privacy.

 

[chucker23n1]

P.S - @chucker23n1 cute chart, I like it. Looks legit

OK buddy. You got a better one? The page I linked is chock full of data. Rejecting it in favor of "how do you explain the death rates being +/- 1%" is sticking your fingers in your ears.