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Re:Germany flips to Apple-Google approach on smartphone cont... by mschuster91 on Monday April 27, 2020 @03:30AM (#22993713)
> So the alternative variants that go under that brand are probably a dead letter.

Government-mandated alternative applications will probably be excepted, too.

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Re:Germany flips to Apple-Google approach on smartphone cont... by tpush on Monday April 27, 2020 @08:12AM (#22995053)
Nope, explicitly not [1]:

"Those privacy principles are not going to change," said Gary Davis, Apple's global director of privacy. "They are fundamental privacy principles that are needed to make this work."

[1] https://appleinsider.com/articles/20/04/24/apple-google-in-a...

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Re:Germany flips to Apple-Google approach on smartphone cont... by pgeorgi on Monday April 27, 2020 @07:57AM (#22994971)
That's what INRIA and Fraunhofer thought as well, yet their approach is now dead.
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Re:Germany flips to Apple-Google approach on smartphone cont... by mschuster91 on Monday April 27, 2020 @04:11PM (#22999502)
The Fraunhofer approach with centralized data collection is dead because they got a shit-tornado from researchers and the experienced general public.
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