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Re:Me on Covid-19 contact tracing apps by spuz on Friday May 01, 2020 @12:45PM (#23043921)
Presumably, if you decide to install the app, it's because you are willing to consider altering your behaviour based on the alerts it gives you. You might find forcing people to install it has little benefit because of the point you mentioned but I don't think anyone is talking about making it mandatory.
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Re:Me on Covid-19 contact tracing apps by oliver2213 on Friday May 01, 2020 @01:22PM (#23044350)
From what I've read, apple and google appear to be working on rolling out APIs for contact tracing on their platforms, and apps you explicitly install are supposedly just the first stage, with later in-platform functionality presumably to come with regular OS updates. So It might not always be a deliberate choice made by users in the future, for good or ill.
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Re:Me on Covid-19 contact tracing apps by AlanSE on Friday May 01, 2020 @02:59PM (#23045370)
That sound really speculative. What exact wording did you see that makes you think this?
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Re:Me on Covid-19 contact tracing apps by tinus_hn on Saturday May 02, 2020 @03:33AM (#23050088)
No, the OS updates provide apis that apps that you voluntarily install can use. They don’t work on their own.
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