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The Apple-Google protocol is designed to reasonably protect their users even in less-free countries. Consider every Middle Eastern country; China (Xinjiang, Ti
by diebeforei485 7y ago
The Apple-Google protocol is designed to reasonably protect their users even in less-free countries.
Consider every Middle Eastern country; China (Xinjiang, Tibet etc); India (Kashmir etc); Latin American countries that have cozy relationships with gangs and cartels; Russia; even the USA with ICE and other agencies.
Do you really think Apple and Google should be giving information on their users to those governments? They can't possibly say "stronger contact tracing for Canadians, but not for Mexicans" - it has to be one global standard.
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- ENOTTY 7y ago> [Apple and Google] can't possibly say "stronger contact tracing for Canadians, but not for Mexicans" - it has to be one global standard. Why not? Apple and Google could just as easily say, "Only countries that meet the standards we set get access to more data." On one hand, it seems like the HN community seems okay with giving Apple and Google the power to set norms on technology policy that apply worldwide (e.g., what level of potential privacy loss is acceptable to combat a pandemic), but on the the other hand we don't trust Apple and Google to know how to distinguish a totalitarian regime from a government that respects its citizens' rights?
- diebeforei485 7y agoIt's very hard to make such a distinction in practice, because it comes off as Apple saying that some of their customers' lives are worth more than others.