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How Contact Tracing Will Work On Our Phone, and How To Disable I
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By: Beelzeboop Date: June 10, 2020, 12:51 pm
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I have 3 articles actually...
But FYI,
FOR CONTACT TRACING TO WORK ON YOUR PHONE, BOTH BLUETOOTH AND
LOCATION MUST BE TURNED ON.
ITS APP TRACKING PROBABLY ALREADY ON YOUR PHONE, COMPLIMENTS OF
GOOGLE.
HTML https://i.imgur.com/ZgFwF6n.jpg
Beware the lofty promises of covid 19 tracing apps :
HTML https://www.wired.com/story/beware-the-lofty-promises-of-covid-19-tracker-apps/
State based covid tracing apps will be a mess :
HTML https://www.wired.com/story/covid-19-contact-tracing-app-fragmentation/
With no nationwide Covid-19 notification software in sight,
security and interoperability issues loom large.
And
HTML https://www.wired.com/story/covid-19-contact-tracing-apple-google/
How Covid-19 Contact Tracing Works on Your Phone
Developers are working on track-and-trace systems to keep
infection levels low. The apps aren't here yet, but here's what
they do—and how you can enable or disable them.
OUR SMARTPHONES ARE set to play a significant role in helping
navigate our way out of the coronavirus pandemic, with countries
and companies around the world preparing their own apps as part
of a track-and-trace system to keep infection levels low.
Google and Apple don't work together on much, but they're
working together on this: a set of underlying protocols inside
Android and iOS that are able to speak to each other, even while
your phone is in your pocket.
The first fruits of these efforts are now live on Android phones
and iPhones—here's how to find these settings on your phone, and
what they actually do.
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What Apple and Google have developed isn't an app in
itself—rather it's an application programming interface (an
API), plus some other fundamental technologies, that other apps
can plug into. When you load up a website with a Google Maps
widget on it, that is using a Google Maps API, and the Covid-19
tracking tools work in the same way.
In other words, Apple and Google have done the groundwork,
making sure that health apps can talk to each other across
Android and iOS and get access to the features they need. It's
now up to countries (and states) to develop the apps that plug
into these foundations and provide the actual front-end
interface for users. (If indeed they decide to—some agencies are
working on completely bespoke systems of their own.)
A crucial part of this underlying framework is access to
Bluetooth signals. Bluetooth is perfect for low-energy wireless
transmission that can run in the background of your phone,
without draining the battery excessively. (It's used for
wireless headphones, car stereos, and the like.)
In this case, your phone will be logging other phones it comes
into contact with, assuming both your device and the others are
running a Covid-19 tracking app that's been fully enabled (which
is why public support is going to be so important). These logs
don't include any identifying information about you; they use
random numerical ID codes that change frequently and get trashed
completely once they're older than 14 days (the incubation
period for Covid-19).
Based on what we know so far, the apps will be able to log the
length of time you've been in contact with each person (or
rather each individual phone), and how far away you were,
judging from the strength of the Bluetooth signals. Any contact
that's less risky (such as briefly passing someone on the
street) will be ignored.
Finding the Settings
Very few Covid-19 tracking apps are out in the wild yet, but the
features that Apple and Google have worked on are now live.
Besides the settings that you'll find in future tracking apps,
you can enable or disable "exposure notification" logging at the
operating system level as well—it's a completely opt-in system.
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On Android, open Settings, then tap Google and Covid-19 Exposure
Notifications. You'll be met with a wealth of information about
how exposure tracking works, plus two settings that won't be
active until you install a compatible app: One to delete all the
random IDs that your phone has collected, and one to turn off
the feature completely.
If you use iOS, open Settings and select Privacy, Health, and
Covid-19 Exposure Logging. Again, you can turn this logging on
or off and read some more information about how it works. To get
rid of the random IDs that are stored on your phone, tap the
Delete Exposure Log option at the bottom.
For these apps to work, you'll need your phone's Bluetooth and
location tracking features turned on, though your actual
physical location isn't tracked—the apps won't know where in the
world you are or how many times you've left the house today.
They'll only know which random IDs your phone has come into
contact with.
If you report yourself as positive for Covid-19, the app will
send that record of your rotating IDs to a server, which in turn
will send them out to other devices using the system. Anyone who
has been nearby in the last two weeks will be pinged with an
alert. Those people can then take action themselves (getting
tested, self-isolating), potentially stopping another line of
transmission
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At this stage, we don't know how, exactly, many of the
coronavirus tracking apps built on top of the Apple and Google
technologies are going to work. Latvia has been one of the first
countries out of the gate, but in the US, the decision on
development is going to be made state by state. Utah, for
example, has decided to ignore the framework Apple and Google
have put together in its own tracking app.
Here's how the apps built on the Google and Apple tech are
likely to function: First, you'll have the choice whether to
download an app at all and whether to enable the coronavirus
tracking at the mobile OS level, as explained above. If you
contract Covid-19, you then have another choice whether to alert
the people that you've been in close proximity to.
To avoid false positives, there'll have to be some form of
verification—a kind of certification from a health authority
that a Covid-19 test has indeed come up positive, to prevent
people from pretending or incorrectly entering that they have
caught the coronavirus. This could involve a verification code,
for example, though this is one of the details to be finalized.
At the other end of the line, if you have been in contact with
someone who has caught Covid-19, your phone will let you know.
You won't see the name of the person who's tested positive—or
when or where it happened—only that you're now at risk and
should probably think about getting checked out and limiting
your social interactions. No personally identifiable information
will be accessible by Apple or Google.
If and when apps launch across the world, all of this should be
explained again, with local caveats and tweaks depending on the
region and how local health authorities have decided to use the
technology. Apple and Google have said that access will be
granted only to public health authorities, and that their apps
"must meet specific criteria around privacy, security, and data
control" to qualify—which is why some countries and states might
decide to go their own way.
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Re: How Contact Tracing Will Work On Our Phone, and How To Disab
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By: Anon Date: June 10, 2020, 7:55 pm
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Thanks for the tip. I didn't know that was there.
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Re: How Contact Tracing Will Work On Our Phone, and How To Disab
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By: Beelzeboop Date: June 10, 2020, 7:58 pm
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[quote author=Anon link=topic=5.msg66#msg66 date=1591836925]
Thanks for the tip. I didn't know that was there.
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Np
I'll be doing a lot of threads like this.
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Re: How Contact Tracing Will Work On Our Phone, and How To Disab
le It
By: Anon Date: June 10, 2020, 11:08 pm
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Perspectives on the Pandemic | The (Undercover) Epicenter Nurse
Erin Marie Olszewski is a Nurse-turned-investigative journalist,
who has spent the last few months on the frontlines of the
coronavirus pandemic, on the inside in two radically different
settings. Two hospitals. One private, the other public. One in
Florida, the other in New York.
And not just any New York public hospital, but the "epicenter of
the epicenter" itself, the infamous Elmhurst in Donald Trump's
Queens. As a result of these diametrically opposed experiences,
she has the ultimate "perspective on the pandemic". She has been
where there have been the most deaths attributed to Covid-19 and
where there have been the least.
Erin enlisted in the Army when she was 17. She deployed in
support of Operation Iraqi Freedom in 2003. Part of her duties
involved overseeing aid disbursement and improvements to
hospital facilities. While in country she received the Army
Commendation Medal for meritorious service, and was wounded in
combat. Erin eventually retired as a sergeant, and became a
civilian nurse in 2012.
Erin is a medical freedom and informed consent advocate. She
co-founded the Florida Freedom Alliance but no longer has any
connection with the organization.
HTML https://youtu.be/UIDsKdeFOmQ
Can't embed vid, more in description under video
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Re: How Contact Tracing Will Work On Our Phone, and How To Disab
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By: LunaC Date: June 10, 2020, 11:10 pm
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If you use the short link from the share option in YouTube it
will auto embed.
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Re: How Contact Tracing Will Work On Our Phone, and How To Disab
le It
By: Beelzeboop Date: June 10, 2020, 11:28 pm
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[quote author=Anon link=topic=5.msg130#msg130 date=1591848535]
Perspectives on the Pandemic | The (Undercover) Epicenter Nurse
Erin Marie Olszewski is a Nurse-turned-investigative journalist,
who has spent the last few months on the frontlines of the
coronavirus pandemic, on the inside in two radically different
settings. Two hospitals. One private, the other public. One in
Florida, the other in New York.
And not just any New York public hospital, but the "epicenter of
the epicenter" itself, the infamous Elmhurst in Donald Trump's
Queens. As a result of these diametrically opposed experiences,
she has the ultimate "perspective on the pandemic". She has been
where there have been the most deaths attributed to Covid-19 and
where there have been the least.
Erin enlisted in the Army when she was 17. She deployed in
support of Operation Iraqi Freedom in 2003. Part of her duties
involved overseeing aid disbursement and improvements to
hospital facilities. While in country she received the Army
Commendation Medal for meritorious service, and was wounded in
combat. Erin eventually retired as a sergeant, and became a
civilian nurse in 2012.
Erin is a medical freedom and informed consent advocate. She
co-founded the Florida Freedom Alliance but no longer has any
connection with the organization.
HTML https://youtu.be/UIDsKdeFOmQ
Can't embed vid, more in description under video
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Just know, Elmhurst has been the shithole hospital of the city,
going on 30 years.
They're useless.
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