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Does this update include in COVID-19 tracker in bedded in the programming
iPhone 8 Plus, iOS 13
Then l consider this a violation of my constitutional right to privacy and will not update my phone. And when this contract is up I will not purchase another IPhone. It’s not ethically your (Apple’s) right or anyone’s to track anyone that hasn’t committed a crime. This is Despicable.
You don't have a constitutional right to privacy.
Your paranoia has gone right off the cliff. There is nothing in the API that allows Apple or anyone else to track you.
Please educate yourself.
By the way, your cellular carrier knows exactly where you are and where you've been every minute your phone is turned on. The government has easy access to that data.
It doesn't matter what kind of cell phone you have.
The only way the tracking can be done is by you downloading an app, if and when it is available, and by you activating the app. You are in complete control if you do not want to be tracked. Apple and Google are both working on this tracking. So, if you do not want an iPhone, do not get an android phone either. Right now, your cellular carrier tracks you with your signal. If you do not want to be tracked at all, don’t use any cell phone.
Apple has been in the news for defending the privacy of its users. And now apple feels it needs to change that position, over a Flu...with a 99.98 survival. If I’m being tracked a thousand different ways then my decision to drop apple will mean I’m being tracked one less way.
You seem pretty entrenched in your view Ydontya, and that’s fine - I am not trying to change your mind. I just want to leave this here for anyone else looking for information about CovID contact tracing and reading this thread.
1. The Contact Tracing framework is delivered in iOS 13.5 and later. A reasonable guess is that it will stay for the near future, at the very least. Apple hasn’t said how long it will stick around and likely won’t say.
2. Upon installation, the framework is disabled. If you don’t enable it, no contact tracing is done.
3. Apple does not provide an app for contact tracing. Installing the iOS update does not install any app that will use the contact tracing API.
4. You would have to download a contact tracing app to even be able to enable the framework. Apple requires apps to be sponsored/written by a public health authority - i.e., I can't write my own and submit it to the app store. (Haven’t been keeping up on this, but here in the US I believe Utah and North Dakota have such an app - maybe a few others by now?).
5. The app does not work by getting access to your _location_. This is what everyone seems to leap to. Apple has written a document that explains how it _does_ work so I’m not going to go into that. That’d be another long post. It's not a _tracker_, per se - the official name is Exposure Notification API, and it would be more properly referred to as contact tracing.
BTW, this was jointly developed with Google - so it is part of Android too. I haven’t researched the details of it but I’d assume it’s pretty much the same.
And, Ydontya, you are certainly free not to trust these companies or the way contact tracing is implemented. But as pointed out above - if you don't trust them with this contact tracing API, you are carrying around a GPS in your smartphone.
It has the API's for the developers to write those apps.
No. It contains an API which is disabled by default, that allows developers to write tracking apps.
There is an API software in the iOS update that is set to default off. It can’t be set on without an app that is not yet available. So, just ignore it.
You are already being tracked in a thousand ways.
The same API's are on Android devices.
It’s not paranoia, it’s privacy period.
No.
It's even beyond paranoia.
You have to decide what is best for you. Note, as has been mentioned, that android phones have the same API software so if that concerns you, don’t get an android phone.
They haven't changed their position at all. Your knee jerk reaction is based on bad information.
That’s funny. Silence is acceptance. Compliance is excepted. But anyone that stands up and says that’s enough is paranoid. And yes you do have a constitutional right to privacy.
Does this app include a COVID-19 tracker in bedded in the program
