04-10-2020, 04:32 PM
Google and Apple offered today to work together in order to record movement profiles that can track Corona infections. They both want to build this into their systems ("No app needed"). It is all voluntary and for a good cause, of course. Or so they want to make us believe.
Only that Google is already publishing data about how many people are visiting popular parks right now. They do collect this data already and since location services are switched on by default and many people cannot be bothered to switch them off, it should not be assumed that all this data is based on having given active consent:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-52243088
If you needed one more compelling reason to ditch them both and get yourself a Pinephone, this must be it:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-52246319
Only that Google is already publishing data about how many people are visiting popular parks right now. They do collect this data already and since location services are switched on by default and many people cannot be bothered to switch them off, it should not be assumed that all this data is based on having given active consent:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-52243088
If you needed one more compelling reason to ditch them both and get yourself a Pinephone, this must be it:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-52246319