When will the google virus tracking software be removed?

its in settings -> Exposure Notifications -> Toggle switch

So you have control over that, toggle off & it’s not tracking.

There is also one under Privacy —> Tracking —> Toggle switch

So again you control over that, toggle off & np 😉.

What are you talking about? Google hasn't installed tracking software on your phone. If you are concerned about Google however, Apple doesn't use Google software on your phone. If you are using Google Apps on your phone, you can delete them.

There is no tracking software for COVID-19 on your phone and never has been. There is a hook function (an API, or Application Programming Interface) that allows you to install a TRACING (not TRACKING) app on your phone that tells you if you have been near other people with the same app who have reported to the app that they may be infected. It does not tell you where you were near them, and doesn’t tell you who they were. And vice versa. If you don’t install the app, or don’t turn on the API, for all practical purposes it doesn’t exist.

However, if you are so concerned about being tracked, why do you have a cell phone at all? As long as you have a phone you are tracked constantly. And not anonymously, like the COVID-19 API is.

leica88 wrote:

I will not update my phone until that’s taken away it’s still tracking software code developed with Google

What version do you have? You do realize that every update blocks newly discovered vulnerabilities that can compromise the security of your phone? That can allow hacked websites to install spyware on your phone? I guess that having the ability to add an app that can protect your health (only if you choose to) is a much greater risk in your mind than the spyware that may have already been installed on your phone.

Sigh.....Google and Apple partnered to build an API health departments can use for an app to permit you to opt in to Covid tracking IF and ONLY IF, your local health department offers an App for such purpose. It does NOT mean Google is tracking you. And you would have to OPT IN to such an app to begin with. If you didn't opt in, or your health department doesn't even off such an app, you can't be tracked. And the app doesn't actually track you to begin with. It lets you know if your phone has come in close proximity to someone who has tested positive to the Covid19 Virus. It doesn't know who you are, nor the person you may have been near. And again, if you didn't opt in, no one is tracking you to begin with.

Your paranoia, is getting the best of you here.

Google doesn’t provide any tracking software on iPhones.

What software are you talking about?

I have always felt this should have been a opt in app

And it is.

What is in iOS is the API that an app you choose to install will use.

No tracking app cam be installed without your consent.

I will not update my phone until that’s taken away it’s still tracking software code developed with Google

ok... you be you.

lobsterghost1 wrote:

Your paranoia, is getting the worst of you here.

Misdirected paranoia, at that. There are real threats to your privacy when using any cell phone. This is not one of them.

And let us not forget that myths such as these are propagated on sites such as farcebook, twitter, etc ...... and we know they would never track you.

Now that there is funny!!

stedman1 wrote:

And let us not forget that myths such as these are propagated on sites such as farcebook, twitter, etc ...... and we know they would never track you.