Apple and Google partner on Covid-19 contact tracing technology
Promising opt-in is a bit disingenuous. These tech giants are creating a technological capability. Whether or not it is opt-in, opt-out or mandatory is then decided by governments, now and in the future.<p>This is of course nothing new. But it's worth noting considering how high the tolerance for extremely intrusive government action currently is and how extremely weak any resistance is bound to be.<p>I'm not saying I'm against contact tracing in the current situation. But that shiny new button that governments get to press will never go away.<p>Edit: Reading the spec, I found a piece of information that may be of interest: This technology allows contact tracing without necessarily revealing the location where that contact has taken place. So that could indeed be a privacy benefit over alternative approaches.<p><a href="https://covid19-static.cdn-apple.com/applications/covid19/current/static/contact-tracing/pdf/ContactTracing-BluetoothSpecification.pdf" rel="nofollow">https://covid19-static.cdn-apple.com/applications/covid19/cu...</a>