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Re:Germany flips to Apple-Google approach on smartphone cont... by dTal on Monday April 27, 2020 @01:30PM (#22997929)
> or after-the-fact by not reporting your beacons (or reporting false beacons) for certain times.

Not with the "Apple/Google protocol", you can't; your beacons are derived from a key, and only the key is uploaded.

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Re:Germany flips to Apple-Google approach on smartphone cont... by azernik on Monday April 27, 2020 @08:10PM (#23001808)
As I noted:

> (And in fact, Apple and Google aren't following this protocol, they're coming out with their own joint system that they claim is DP3T-inspired.)

Criticisms of DP3T should be separated from criticisms of the Apple/Google system.

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