Ask HN: Did everyone notice iOS now has Covid-19 tracking?

Posted by CPLX on Saturday June 20, 2020 @01:37PM
from the ask-hn dept.

I didn’t realize that this had been added. I don’t have automatic updates on but it seems to have shown up anyways, under Settings > Privacy > Health.

Looks like it’s set to off by default.

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Re:Ask HN: Did everyone notice iOS now has Covid-19 tracking? by throwaway851 on Sunday June 21, 2020 @12:01AM (#23589646)

If you want to know how it works, you can find the API spec here:

Privacy-Preserving Contact Tracing

https://www.apple.com/covid19/contacttracing/

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Re:Ask HN: Did everyone notice iOS now has Covid-19 tracking? by rurban on Saturday June 20, 2020 @10:29PM (#23589246)

Needed for Low Energy Bluetooth support for the various Covid-19 apps.

And while they were there, they've also added a centralized tracking id, so that the apps don't need to do decentralized tracking, and can bullshit you about less privacy.

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Re:Ask HN: Did everyone notice iOS now has Covid-19 tracking? by catacombs on Saturday June 20, 2020 @03:17PM (#23586217)

This has been in the news for a while now. Good on Apple to disable the tracking by default.

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