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My understanding from the article: if the tracing functionality is in the OS, it can be enabled in the future without user consent. The fact that currently we n
by empiricus 6y ago
My understanding from the article: if the tracing functionality is in the OS, it can be enabled in the future without user consent.
The fact that currently we need to opt-in with an app does not really matter; in the future the government can decide to use it directly for whatever purposes.
- Mindwipe 6y agoIf the government decided that the OS vendors could push the functionality anyway. System level applications are controlled by the OS vendor and already have access to this data, so there is no additional risk here.
- jmull 6y agoAs the system is described there’s no way to flip a switch. Apple/Google could always push a software update that does all kinds of terrible things, but that has always been true and remains true with or without a contact tracing system. It’s a concerning possibility but has nothing at all to do with this system.