Get Corona App running

[jim-61]

IMHO anyone who installs a tracking and tracing app on their phone is setting themselves up for harrassment and much worse. People, I hope you understand that e/ has the potential to save your life. I’m so thankful to /e for providing an alternative and plan to make a donation as soon as I finish this post.

[harvey186]

Contact Tracing App Privacy: What Data Is SharedBy Europe’s GAEN Contact Tracing Apps

The study “Contact Tracing App Privacy: What Data Is SharedBy Europe’s GAEN Contact Tracing Apps” shows every Android user (once again) how openly and extensively Google spies on its users. Current versions of Google Play Services (and probably older ones as well) send the following information to Google every 20 minutes:

• IP address
• IMEI of the device
• Hardware serial number
• SIM card serial number
• Phone number
• e-mail address
• User statistics of Apps

https://www.scss.tcd.ie/Doug.Leith/pubs/contact_tracing_app_traffic.pdf

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[trefix]

Hopefully, French authorities didn’t care about EU’s recommendations and build there own centralized app. (StopCovid). For our security, I presume

In the same time, they drop “HealthCare” (a new centralized health data file) on M$ cloud…

[Ingo_FP_Angel]

From what I understood, any decision by the French government to build their own app would only matter, if it was completely independent from the exposure notification API, i.e. would be usable on a phone without the Google Play Services.

these apps consistof two separate components: a “client” app managed by thenational public health authority and the Google/Apple ExposureNotification (GAEN) service, that on Android devices is managedby Google and is part of Google Play Services.

We find that thehealth authority client apps are generally well behaved from aprivacy point of view, although the privacy of the Irish, Polish,Danish and Latvian apps could be improved. In marked contrast,we find that the Google Play Services component of these appsis extremely troubling from a privacy viewpoint.

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This datacollection is enabled simply by enabling Google Play Services,even when all other Google services and settings are disabled.

[DarthDavester]

So it seems, microG now features a preliminary exposure notification API. See: https://www.reddit.com/r/MicroG/comments/i3334p/microg_now_includes_a_preliminary_implementation/

Now, what does this mean for /e/? While many people seem very much opposed to allowing for this framework, to others (this may or may not include me, not sure yet) not doing so may just be a dealbreaker. It seems a divisive issue so I am curious to learn more.

Will the microG update be implemented in /e/ at all? Can you say, at what point the update will be available?

[anon38440295]

I really think this whole microg thing needs to be deepened