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Re:Smartphone contact tracing has failed everywhere by Spearchucker on Saturday July 25, 2020 @05:37PM (#23952620)
True. Except that the German app turns on EVERYTHING - LTE, WiFi, Bluetooth, GPS. And the carrier gets it all. I had the app installed for all of maybe 2 minutes because it did exactly what it claimed to do, but I'm not giving the carrier even more granular location info. The only thing I leave on when I leave the house is mobile data.
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Re:Smartphone contact tracing has failed everywhere by usr1106 on Saturday July 25, 2020 @10:24PM (#23953920)
I'm not in Germany and I don't have compatible phone. But from all I have read the claim about turning on GPS is plain wrong.
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Re:Smartphone contact tracing has failed everywhere by danijoo on Sunday July 26, 2020 @10:16AM (#23957173)
German android user here. This is absolutely wrong. I suspect you are misinterpreting the permission message on Android. The app does not turn anything on. I suggest you to learn how androids permission system works before throwing out wrong accusions.
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Re:Smartphone contact tracing has failed everywhere by Spearchucker on Sunday July 26, 2020 @03:04PM (#23959323)
I stand by my post.
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