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Re:Google promised its contact tracing app was completely pr... by procombo on Tuesday April 27, 2021 @12:40PM (#26958303)
Hardly. Your privacy also depends on what devices your neighbors use. Bluetooth/Wifi/etc packet broadcast, etc. Apple does _some_ things to midigate privacy risks for their users, but not enough.
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Re:Google promised its contact tracing app was completely pr... by heavyset_go on Tuesday April 27, 2021 @03:26PM (#26960316)
This. My wireless networks, MAC addresses etc are collected on Google's end by my neighbors' Google devices for things like advanced location tracking.
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Re:Google promised its contact tracing app was completely pr... by tekknik on Wednesday April 28, 2021 @08:54AM (#26968765)
But note that now Apple has fake mac addresses (for wifi though) for this reason.
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Re:Google promised its contact tracing app was completely pr... by heavyset_go on Wednesday April 28, 2021 @02:53PM (#26972748)
Google's advanced location tracking logs access point ESSIDs and MAC addresses. Whatever Apple is doing won't stop that.
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