Utah's Contact Tracing App Doesn't Use Apple's Exposure Notification API, Opts for Less Private GPS-Focused Approach

[ani4ani]

If I understand your question correctly, then no. The Google/Apple API allows apps that use it to access Bluetooth in the background, without being the front-most app and without the phone being awake. Those requirements do exist for apps that are not using the Apple/Google API: the app has to be actually awake and running to function, hence the power drain.

The NHSX app operates the same as confirmed by Apple engineers; they allowed the workaround NHSX came up with to achieve the same outcome.

 

[Tech198]

if its optional to share location data, the perhaps... but why would you ? our mobile carriers already know where we are, just get that stuff from them. more convinient.. **

I wanna make things LESS convenient.

 

[EmotionalSnow]

Considering Utah is a state that leans conservative, which seem to be the most against giving up their freedom and data to "big government", I'm kind of surprised they went the more intrusive route.

Conservatives are not always against giving up freedoms, just think about same-sex marriage; also it seems that many conservatives would vote to give up privacy in order to "aid" law enforcement.

 

[bb9]

The interesting thing is that if you dig deeper on the CDC site, they are claiming 55K actual deaths from Covid-19.

The CDC page that you linked included what the CDC considered probable data (i.e. estimates).

THANKS for the deeper dive. There is so much data to sort through, do we underestimate or overestimate the data since there seems to be no way to have real numbers on the fly?