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Re:Massachusetts health notifications app installed without ... by mandmandam on Saturday June 19, 2021 @08:40AM (#27559961)
Interesting, I hadn't heard of that.

Still, the point I was making is that Google absolutely lied about what their app was sending; and people who distrust them are more than justified to. The privacy virtues of the Irish app in particular were the subject of much lauding - when it was shortly after :proven: to be bullshit, that story got less than 1% of the traction.

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Re:Massachusetts health notifications app installed without ... by kuschku on Saturday June 19, 2021 @08:47AM (#27560003)
The contact tracing apps send basically nothing.

It's the rest of Android that's the issue.

The point is that installing the contact tracing apps doesn't track you any more than before, neither on microg+fdroid than on a google stack.

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Re:Massachusetts health notifications app installed without ... by sp332 on Saturday June 19, 2021 @09:33AM (#27560330)
If someone has stock Android with Google Play Services disabled, the app won't work. The instructions to install the app don't mention installing a replacement, they tell users to enable Google Play Services.
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