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https://9to5mac.com/2020/05/21/covid-19-exposure-notification-api-states/
And with this news story, a “line in the sand” has been crossed. The currently available update makes the iPhone ready to interface with any number and flavor of app designed to allow for Kontakt-Logging-And Tracing. A clear choice faces us all as a result. In my view carrying such a device puts a mark in the “I am OK with this” column of, paying for, carrying, and agreeing to literally anyone to surveil not only your movements, but anyone you come into contact with. If this doesn’t bother you, have at the update and be sure to crank out a $1000 for the glossy new version of these devices that they roll out every year as well. On Monday, I sell any such device that has these sorts of capabilities, and will no longer carry a mobile.
Is that over-reacting? I’d say no, but you’re welcome to your opinion. All I will say in closing is this. And what happens when you must provide proof of your updated device, with the mandatory applications, and the mandatory “authorizations” to travel, because that’s next. And lot’s not even discuss that capacity this provides for surveilling your interactions with anyone including yourself carrying such a device. I wrote in a vidchat late last year, that this new class of device carried a new class of location tracking chip that more precisely fixes your exact point, now you see why they needed to include those. I rest my case, make your choices. BTW this post has already disappeared once.