Discussion

• @breditor Brett Winterford on x

  This likely played out as follows: Governments pressured Apple and Google to allow apps like TraceTogether to run in the background. Apple/Google engineered a privacy-preserving way to do it that doesn't allow for central storage/analysis of data. (1/3) https://www.theguardian.co…

• @jamesrbuk James Ball on x

  Contact tracing apps which aren't also enormously invasive (and this huge privacy and hacking/security risks) are HARD. Apple and Google are trying to engineer-in safeguards that the NHS approach doesn't have. The result? A bit of a stand-off. https://twitter.com/...

• @jsphctrl Joseph Cotterill on x

  Curious about the emphasis in British debate on apps for contact tracing. In South Africa, where tracing was a priority from the start, it means lots of grassroots health workers and phone surveillance under special judicial review. https://www.theguardian.com/ ...

• @jimwaterson Jim Waterson on x

  The proposed design for the NHS app to get us out of the pandemic isn't compatible with privacy controls put in place by Apple and Google. In a battle between the UK government and the US tech companies, I know who I'd put my money on. https://www.theguardian.com/ ...

• @tomhfh Tom Harwood on x

  This proposal seems very sensible from Apple & Google - defending users from what could easily be twisted into an authoritarian tool of mass surveillance. Whilst no doubt UK Govt proposal was well intentioned, the consequences of it don't appear to have been well thought though. …

• @alexhern Hern on x

  I simply can't see the NHS winning this standoff. Or, rather, I can see the NHS *ignoring* this standoff, and releasing a Singapore-style app that receives limited uptake and delivers even worse data, but I hope that doesn't happen https://www.theguardian.com/ ...

• Vox Sara Morrison on x

  Apple and Google look like problematic heroes in the pandemic

• @jefflee2020 Jeff Lee on x

  Apple and Google debut Bluetooth-based contact-tracing platform to combat Covid-19...and end privacy? — RT World News https://www.rt.com/... @catoletters Add Bill Gates force vaccinations and public will become 100% Corp slaves. NWO rolling out into effect.

• @stshank Stephen Shankland on x

  Apple and Google: here's our joint work to create privacy-sensitive coronavirus contact tracing technology. Singapore: LOL https://www.cnet.com/... From @alfredwkng

• @mattgreenfield Matthew Greenfield on x

  Apple and Google will make tracking technology to fight coronavirus. The ACLU has privacy concerns, but I have concerns about people dying of Covid-19 if we don't do this. https://www.vox.com/...

• @scheufele Dietram A. Scheufele on x

  EU lawmakers outline criteria for #COVID19 #ContactTracing apps: voluntary; approved by national health authorities; private data is securely encrypted; dismantled when no longer needed https://techcrunch.com/... #scicomm #scipol #CivilRights

• @benlovejoy @benlovejoy on x

  Unfortunately, the EU appears to be moving very slowly here. Just adopt the Apple/Google API and create a single EU app that can be localised for each country ... https://twitter.com/...

• @carnage4life Dare Obasanjo on x

  EU guidelines for #COVID19 contact tracing apps * voluntary * approved by the national health authority * privacy-preserving * dismantled after the crisis Evidence from Singapore is apps need 60-75% adoption to be effective. Maybe Apple should pull a U2? https://techcrunch.com/..…