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Hortensis

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14. "No, no one has secretly installed a COVID-19 tracker onto your smartphone"

Tue Jun 23, 2020, 08:33 AM

Jun 2020

There IS something:

What you're actually seeing is the groundwork that Apple and Google have done to allow governments and health agencies to develop their own COVID-19 trackers, and also to give the end-user the ability to turn the feature off if they want to. It's not an app (technically it's the API framework), and only approved apps can make use of the feature.

And the end-user is in control of it. From installing the app, to removing it and erasing the data.

Both companies issued a statement outlining their plans back in May. https://blog.google/inside-google/company-announcements/apple-google-exposure-notification-api-launches/

WIRED.com has a good article on the apps that aren't available yet.

https://www.wired.com/story/covid-19-contact-tracing-apple-google/

So many Kool-Aid gulpers have paranoid leanings that trap them in circular "reasoning": "Government can't be trusted and is out to get us. I don't trust anything or anyone. Therefore, government can't be trusted and neither can anything else." Sounds like condemnation to secular hell to me. How to protect them from the pandemic of mind-fuckers?

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Was a COVID-19 tracker really added to your phone? [View all] ecstatic Jun 2020 OP

Its on my iPhone if I want to use it but I have to download and activate an app first NightWatcher Jun 2020 #1

Same here and turn on bluetooth. SammyWinstonJack Jun 2020 #4

Yes, you have to download the app first Johnny2X2X Jun 2020 #7

Hmm... on one hand it might be a great thing since trump has not ecstatic Jun 2020 #12

I found it on my MuseRider Jun 2020 #2

I read that the app is supposed to warn when you come in close proximity with a CoronaV carrier? randr Jun 2020 #3

Well I'll be darned soothsayer Jun 2020 #5

I do not have a cell phone and never will have one. katmondoo Jun 2020 #6

Well.....ok. Nt USALiberal Jun 2020 #8

Wow! Kudos? nt ecstatic Jun 2020 #9

So this is in no way relevant to you but thanks sweetloukillbot Jun 2020 #21

Calm down matt819 Jun 2020 #10

It's on my phone, but I can't find any information about the availability in my state. Arkansas Granny Jun 2020 #11

Information please Tetrachloride Jun 2020 #13

"No, no one has secretly installed a COVID-19 tracker onto your smartphone" Hortensis Jun 2020 #14

Thanks ecstatic Jun 2020 #16

Well, a large majority of people polled say they want testing, Hortensis Jun 2020 #20

not on mine dweller Jun 2020 #15

Do you use wifi? Have you disabled automatic app ecstatic Jun 2020 #17

if i use wifi dweller Jun 2020 #18

Thanks for this info. Looked and Wawannabe Jun 2020 #19

I had a down load last week then immediately started having spotty issues sending text and pictures LizBeth Jun 2020 #22

Not on my iPhone, but there's been notifications... Buckeye_Democrat Jun 2020 #23

OK, I updated my iPhone and.. ananda Jun 2020 #24

I just did the same after using a library's Wifi... Buckeye_Democrat Jun 2020 #25

Its a notification on Google settings on android, nothing is running without separate tracking app Baclava Jun 2020 #26

Yep. Buckeye_Democrat Jun 2020 #27