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You would be naive to believe that Android/iOS are secure in this respect. Pretty much every government in the world has a "need" to surveil their population,
by anonymousiam 4y ago
You would be naive to believe that Android/iOS are secure in this respect. Pretty much every government in the world has a "need" to surveil their population, and have "insisted" upon this capability.
- andybak 4y agoIn this particular instance, color me naive. You're saying a State Government can request Google installs a 3rd party app on 1 million phones? If that's true then I'm genuinely astonished. And more so that it wasn't headline news at the time. Or maybe there's more to this than currently is apparent.
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- jesboat 4y ago> You're saying a State Government can request Google installs a 3rd party app on 1 million phones? If that's true then I'm genuinely astonished. And more so that it wasn't headline news at the time. Yes. That's what happened. (I'm not sure if the 1E6 phones claim is accurate, but it was a non-trivial chunk of people near MA).
- detaro 4y agoIt was reported at the time: https://9to5google.com/2021/06/19/massachusetts-massnotify-app/ https://9to5google.com/2021/06/19/massachusetts-massnotify-a... https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2021/06/even-creepier-covid-tracking-google-silently-pushed-app-to-users-phones/ https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2021/06/even-creepier-covid-... https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/google-force-installs-massachusetts-massnotify-android-covid-app/ https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/google-force-... https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27558500 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27558500