[liberationtech] Apple & Google Partner on Coronavirus Surveillance Tech

[David Stodolsky]

The first thing Apple can do is help the TraceTogether team. Their app can only run in the foreground on the iPhone, which means it will not function most of the time. Apple’s new Find My Mac protocol would probably provide a solution.


dss


> On 10 Apr 2020, at 19:52, Yosem Companys <ycompanys at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Apple and Google are teaming up to build software into smartphones that would alert people recently in contact with someone infected with the coronavirus, an unprecedented collaboration between the makers of the operating systems behind billions of smartphones world-wide.
> https://www.wsj.com/articles/apple-google-partner-on-coronavirus-contact-tracing-technology-11586540203 <https://www.wsj.com/articles/apple-google-partner-on-coronavirus-contact-tracing-technology-11586540203>-- 
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David Stodolsky, PhD                   Institute for Social Informatics
Tornskadestien 2, st. th., DK-2400 Copenhagen NV, Denmark
dss at socialinformatics.org          Tel./Signal: +45 3095 4070

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