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Re:Smartphone contact tracing has failed everywhere by nxpnsv on Saturday July 25, 2020 @12:28PM (#23950424)
So they’d have to just force it then?
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Re:Smartphone contact tracing has failed everywhere by thetanil on Saturday July 25, 2020 @12:37PM (#23950490)
Or do it like Germany, no centralized info store.
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Re:Smartphone contact tracing has failed everywhere by makomk on Saturday July 25, 2020 @01:31PM (#23950930)
The German approach doesn't give your information to a German centralized info store, but apparently it does require agreeing to feed your location data to Google's own databases on Android devices: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/20/technology/google-covid-t...
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