[liberationtech] Strength of Political Action, In The Era of COVID-19... More Theatrics & Side-Shows.

[David Stodolsky]

This appears to be virtue signaling. France is asking that the Apple/Google tracing security be relaxed. 


> https://apple.slashdot.org/story/20/04/21/2019202/france-says-apple-bluetooth-policy-is-blocking-virus-tracker#comments <https://apple.slashdot.org/story/20/04/21/2019202/france-says-apple-bluetooth-policy-is-blocking-virus-tracker#comments>

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.


dss


> On 23 Apr 2020, at 03:15, Robert Mathews (OSIA) <mathews at hawaii.edu> wrote:
> 
> 
> Yesterday, I wrote of "presumably conscious" 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."
> 
> In his letter, Hawley asks EACH CEO and other company executives to "[m]ake a commitment" to being "personally liable if [they] stop protecting privacy....."     
> 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>
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> Office of Scientific Inquiry & Applications (OSIA)
> University of Hawai'i
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David Stodolsky, PhD                   Institute for Social Informatics
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