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2020-09-02 Science & Technology

Apple, Google build virus-tracing tech directly into phones

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Posted by Fred 2020-09-02 00:00|| || Front Page|| [6 views ] Top

#1 Next: chips implanted in the ~~sheep's~~ citizens' brains

Posted by Black Bart Dribble8491 2020-09-02 01:44|| 2020-09-02 01:44|| Front Page Top

#2 Well, Crapple controls the design and production of their hardware, so they can probably do that. Gurgle, other than their pixel phones, which represent a tiny sliver of the market, is limited to what they can do in software with other makers phones. While Crapple has a majority market share in the US, it doesn't have that in the rest of the world.

Posted by M. Murcek 2020-09-02 05:00|| 2020-09-02 05:00|| Front Page Top

#3 Crapple and Gurgle are the viruses.

Posted by Abu Uluque 2020-09-02 11:29|| 2020-09-02 11:29|| Front Page Top

#4 COVID as excuse for about three months now. Nah, four at least.

So what does that mean, virus tracing?

I suppose that means that it will go through your entire travel history, and history of trying to connect to other peoples' device via bluetooth and whatnot.

Does that mean then, especially if other device runs Apple and/or Google, then that device is activated and that unit's entire travel and/or connectivity history is accessed.

And so on. And so on.

Conversely, could an individual be selected, and like a game of Kevin Bacon, traced to someone who has tested positive for whatever?

Apple and Google: look at us, we are so edgy and in, we are the creative class.

Also Apple and Google: yeah, we're pretty much the Borg.

Posted by swksvolFF 2020-09-02 11:30|| 2020-09-02 11:30|| Front Page Top

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