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I ponder whether Google and Apple (aka Big Brother) should have given this work to another group and promised implementation/integration. I appreciate that your
by smithza 6y ago
I ponder whether Google and Apple (aka Big Brother) should have given this work to another group and promised implementation/integration. I appreciate that your group is working on making it open source but as you pointed out:
> It is not clarified what [the metadata] will contain and who will have access to it, so let’s try to guess.
At the least, I would want Apple/Google to fully disclose these technical details before I would accept its terms & conditions. If they even put their logic in an open source format (i.e. GitHub), I would feel more comfortable. Google is a much worse player in the game of "making money from users by tracing their every move" than Apple.
- nl 6y agoGoogle and Apple have collaborated in the open on this, publicly shared specs and taken feedback. The framework itself has to be implemented by them because it is part of iOS (in Apple's case) or Android Services (in Google's). The apps themselves are being implemented by 3rd parties. There will always be critics but it's hard to see how they could have rapidly developed this much better.