<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">This appears to be virtue signaling. France is asking that the Apple/Google tracing security be relaxed. <div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><div class=""><blockquote type="cite" class="" style="font-family: Palatino-Roman;"><div class=""><div class=""><a href="https://apple.slashdot.org/story/20/04/21/2019202/france-says-apple-bluetooth-policy-is-blocking-virus-tracker#comments" class="">https://apple.slashdot.org/story/20/04/21/2019202/france-says-apple-bluetooth-policy-is-blocking-virus-tracker#comments</a><br class=""></div></div></blockquote><div style="font-family: Palatino-Roman;" class=""><br class=""></div><span style="font-family: Palatino-Roman;" class="">It appears that France has developed a slightly less secure tracing method than the coming Apple/Google API/OS built-in. The current limitation is that Apple doesn’t allow Bluetooth to run on the iPhone, if the app is in the background and the data leaves the phone. This has crippled TraceTogether, etc., since it makes tracing impractical with the iPhone.</span></div><div class=""><span style="font-family: Palatino-Roman;" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div class=""><span style="font-family: Palatino-Roman;" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div class=""><span style="font-family: Palatino-Roman;" class="">dss</span></div><div class=""><span style="font-family: Palatino-Roman;" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On 23 Apr 2020, at 03:15, Robert Mathews (OSIA) <<a href="mailto:mathews@hawaii.edu" class="">mathews@hawaii.edu</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class="">
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Yesterday, I wrote of <b class="">"presumably conscious"</b> lawmakers, in
the UK. Today, we take notice of at least one of their U.S.
counterparts, in a similar vein. United States Senator Josh Hawley
has sent a letter to Sundar Pichai (CEO, Google), and Tim Cook (CEO,
Apple) noting "his fear" that, their COVID-19 related contact
tracing company "project could pave the way for something much more
dire."<br class="">
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In his letter, Hawley asks EACH CEO and other company executives to
<b class="">"[m]ake a commitment" to being "</b><b class=""><i class="">personally</i></b><b class="">
liable if [they] stop protecting privacy....." </b><br class="">
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.hawley.senate.gov/sites/default/files/2020-04/Hawley-Google-Apple-Letter-COVID19-Tracing.pdf">https://www.hawley.senate.gov/sites/default/files/2020-04/Hawley-Google-Apple-Letter-COVID19-Tracing.pdf</a><br class="">
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<font color="#b3b3b3" class=""><i class="">Dr. Robert Mathews, D.Phil.<br class="">
Principal Technologist &<br class="">
</i><i class="">Distinguished Senior Research Scholar</i><i class=""><br class="">
</i><i class="">Office of Scientific Inquiry & Applications (OSIA)</i><i class=""><br class="">
</i><i class="">University of Hawai'i</i></font></div>
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