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>It is very difficult to explain to people that are not curious about the technology and all they hear is 'tracing = tracking = no privacy'. But this is litera
by Aerroon 5y ago
>It is very difficult to explain to people that are not curious about the technology and all they hear is 'tracing = tracking = no privacy'.
But this is literally true. This is an app pushed to people remotely without their consent or even knowledge. People cannot trust the claim that there is no privacy gotcha involved in this, especially when previous attempts seem to have opened the log of this information to all installed apps:
https://themarkup.org/privacy/2021/04/27/google-promised-its-contact-tracing-app-was-completely-private-but-it-wasnt https://themarkup.org/privacy/2021/04/27/google-promised-its...
You cannot trust them when they say that the app respects your privacy.
- dTal 5y agoIs there something special about it being an app? Because the contact tracing framework that the app uses was already pushed to people remotely without their consent or knowledge - as well as the contents of every update ever to Google Services Framework. And in the big scheme of shady shit that Android does without the user's consent or knowledge, that's a pretty benign, privacy-respecting one.