Google and Apple said their work would come in two stages. In the first stage, next month, they plan to release a set of tools known as application programming interfaces so that apps created by public health authorities could work on both iPhones and on phones that run Google’s Android operating system.
“This is a more robust solution than an API and would allow more individuals to participate, if they choose to opt in, as well as enable interaction with a broader ecosystem of apps and government health authorities,” the companies said. The idea is that an app could remember, via anonymous Bluetooth signals, which other phones have been nearby. If someone you had coffee with two days ago tests positive for the coronavirus, you would get a notification along the lines of"you may have recently been exposed" — and advising temporary isolation.
No thanks
1984 George Orwell
install Netguard and stop apps from calling home
Almost like the software they run in China to keep tabs on all 1.3 billion of their pop?
...this will not end well.
NO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Don’t you need to test me first? 🤦🏻♀️
Violates medical privacy laws. Go read HPPA. What crap reporting.
An app helping us find hand santizer and bleach would be better.
We should assume everyone has COVID19.
Are they tracing all the way back to China ?
lol. fuck and no.
That's why I always leave home without it.
No
And this is ok w NBC until it’s used against NBC
USA it’s so behind! Did you know South Korea been doing that? 😂
Did you know that the Corona virus restored the earth to its life again? Global warming has decreased significantly in a short period
So are people being monitored?
Government wants to track everything about us!!!
What could go wrong.
How very Chinese.
Great, now our phones are getting covid19.
Big Brother is watching.
It’s needed. Temporarily.
Gapple? Goople? Hey why not
Here we go...
sheilaaj What? How frightening! How about...No!
Time to switch to ubuntu
No thanks. The next step is everyone being implanted with an RFID chip. GTFO BigBrother BigPharma
How can this possible go wrong
do not trust.
leave your intelligence phone at home where it belongs
Another shit people will sue about .. must be done to slow the spread
Ping jhalamka
That’s screaming privacy violations
there you are folks...freedom lost realDonaldTrump jaredkushner
South Korea been doing it for 2 months already 🤷♀️
Orwellian
That's some George Orwell shit right there but what do I know? I'm just a raccoon.
Simply don't shower nor shave for about a week. No effort on your part, the social distance just magically happens.
I’m still awaiting Apple to build a thermometer into an Apple Watch!
🤔
This is such a good yet possibly terrible idea
Cyber dystopian af
Yeah and India,south korea, Singapore, poland, Israel are already ahead of the curve by using this StayHome
Cell phone contract up at end of May. No more Apple products if this is what they are going to do
WhiteHatGuy The People will find a hack.
*switches off bluetooth
You mean the ones we leave home on purpose
Snowden thoughts?
😬
This should scare the hell out of everyone
Nope
bigbrother ChinaLiedAndPeopleDied
Oh. And then what? Try to force someone to get a vaccine? Make them wear a gold C? Execute them? What are 'health authorities' gonna do? First one through my door isn't going to be listed as 'Covid-related' on their death certificate.
Someone must have busted the Illinois Biometric Information Privacy Act. It's a simple law, requiring a person's explicit consent before a company can make a biometric scan of their body.
Track the virus or track the people?
Please stop cutting in to regular programming for corona virus reports. People are getting overwhelmed and can catch the updates during regular news broadcasts.
Acthomas22 funny we talk about all these things and here they are.
NBC = National Broadcaster of China.
Oh yay! Rockwell sang it best! 👀👀👀👀👀👀👀👀👀👀👀👀👀👀👀👀👀👀👀👀👀👀👀👀👀👀👀👀. Ad bill gates chip and you’ll really achieve nwo. I hopebthe money you make was worth ruining America
I don’t think this is a great idea for a lot of reasons....
That's a hard no from me dawg.
You mean spy on us right...
Big brother is watching you. Do you consent? Look what google has helped the communist chinese do with their surveillance state. WakeUpAmerica TheGreatAwakening
Hmm sounds like something out of the 1st movie 'Kingsman' w/implants... but utilizing other means of tracking/genocide..-TX PATRIOTS
Welcome to China
F this.
Oh that’s good coming from fake news NBC. Never, would I ever download an app like this. Do you want to get watched and tracked full-time, this is just another way to do it
No thanks!
Doesn’t South Korea also have something like this?
When are we filing the lawsuit?
Uh no.
Fascism
turn off bluetooth lol
What about HIPPA? They’re dying to use the virus for surveillance. Get off our a$$es!!
Big fucking nope on that one there. Thanks anyway.
Hell no. No to further invasion of privacy by tech firms
Fake
What could possibly go wrong.
Media should be outraged. We know you won’t be though.
Bluetooth off. Location off. Turn phone off, or on airplane, while driving. What else? NationalBroadcasterofChina
Orwell just rolled over in his grave.
Good thing apple and google care so much about us... 🙄
Nope, not intrested. Beat it.
Will they build them in China?
NEW: American citizens leave phone at home.
Don’t they do this anyway? lol
Umm sounds invasive and unconstitutional. No.
fuck WHO BanChina ChineseBioterrorism ChineseVirus19
nbcbayarea So glad to know they care.
What about a temperature sensor that reads your temperature when you look at the phone and uploads the reading?
nbcbayarea Wasn't a data privacy law just passed this year?
... and then sell our data to the highest bidder.
1984.
Spys’rus
I don’t want this at all..... we are losing our privacy right before our eyes.
They are admitting to violating the constitution and our government is drooling for it. And we do nothing about it as a country. We are no longer free it’s been an illusion for decades now.
Like how? By reading your text messages, looking through your photos, listening in on phone calls?
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