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Re:Police told not to download NHS Covid-19 app by ampersandy on Monday September 28, 2020 @01:06PM (#24618841)
My first thought is that police policy may require security audits/etc. before they have any location tracking software installed on their phones that may potentially be abused to know the location of police.
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Re:Police told not to download NHS Covid-19 app by dividuum on Monday September 28, 2020 @05:33PM (#24621450)
Any app using the Expose notification framework is explicitly forbidden from accessing any kind of location information, either GPS or otherwise. See https://blog.google/documents/72/Exposure_Notifications_Serv... (3 c i) and https://developer.apple.com/contact/request/download/Exposur... (3.3)
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Re:Police told not to download NHS Covid-19 app by adrianmonk on Monday September 28, 2020 @03:46PM (#24620533)
Right, this could be as simple as deny by default.
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