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The contact tracing stuff is not going to be based on location but rather on bluetooth beacons from nearby phones. I'm not sure why this is being downvoted. Se
by valleyer 7y ago
The contact tracing stuff is not going to be based on location but rather on bluetooth beacons from nearby phones.
I'm not sure why this is being downvoted. See https://covid19-static.cdn-apple.com/applications/covid19/current/static/contact-tracing/pdf/ContactTracing-BluetoothSpecificationv1.1.pdf https://covid19-static.cdn-apple.com/applications/covid19/cu...:
"The Contact Tracing Bluetooth Specification does not use location for proximity detection. It strictly uses Bluetooth beaconing to detect proximity."
- pinkfoot 7y agoDon't be naïve. 1. the telcos have months - if not years - of LAC update data stored for every phone. They know where you sleep, who visits and where you work and shop; 2. they analyse the CDR for every call/SMS send and received (caller and receiving party cells) [look at your spam SMS with a jaundiced eye]; 3. they 'ping' thousands of phones* daily to trilaterate the location to metres (and/or A-GPS, TDOA, etc.) 4. they analyse the voice and data handover records. * The preferred way to do this with a veneer of deniability is for the authorities to add in a few phones into the known associates list of phones to be monitored in an otherwise legitimate drug or terrorist warrant. They judges will never know (and certainly don't ask).
- jmull 7y agoI wonder what you think any of that has to do with Bluetooth-based contact tracing?
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