Thursday, September 03, 2020

Your Phone Is a Spy, Part 24,569

In addition to the obvious spyware ("Find My Phone"), Apple and Google will be introducing a new spyware feature.

It will be for "your health," of course.  (That's almost as good as "for the children.")

...The software, which is built into the operating systems on Google’s Android phones and Apple’s iPhones, uses Bluetooth to tell whether people have spent significant time near one another. If a participant in the exposure notification program tests positive for the coronavirus, that person’s close contacts may get a notification....

Think that contact-traces will be disabled after the "pandemic" disappears?

Think only "health" departments will be interested?

Can you "test positive" for being a Catholic?  Limited-Government type?  Being at a gun-store?

Inquiring minds want to know.

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