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Re:Apple releases new Covid-19 app and website based on CDC ... by cbhl on Friday March 27, 2020 @01:05PM (#22704626)
I was under the impression that Apple Health is designed so that Apple itself doesn't have access to this data, even in aggregate. Is that not the case?
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Re:Apple releases new Covid-19 app and website based on CDC ... by Shank on Friday March 27, 2020 @01:07PM (#22704646)
That's the case. The only way that they would get this is through a research study with explicit consent/opt-in.
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Re:Apple releases new Covid-19 app and website based on CDC ... by dogma1138 on Friday March 27, 2020 @01:12PM (#22704705)
With the current legal limitations yes, but even with an opt-in they likely would get enough data to be valuable to researchers especially if people also opt-in to share location data.
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Re:Apple releases new Covid-19 app and website based on CDC ... by dogma1138 on Friday March 27, 2020 @01:10PM (#22704687)
The data still exists even it’s just on the phone/watch I have years of historic health data form multiple devices which I would gladly share with PHE or the NHS and any other health agency local or not if it will be useful to them.
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Re:Apple releases new Covid-19 app and website based on CDC ... by ceejayoz on Friday March 27, 2020 @03:26PM (#22705992)
You can opt-in to sharing data via the Apple Research app.

https://www.apple.com/ios/research-app/

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Re:Apple releases new Covid-19 app and website based on CDC ... by cobookman on Friday March 27, 2020 @03:40PM (#22706090)
They could issue a software update that changes this.
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Re:Apple releases new Covid-19 app and website based on CDC ... by ferongr on Friday March 27, 2020 @07:23PM (#22707790)
It's closed source software, it could do either thing.
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