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California's Exposure Notification System Rolling Out on iPhone Thursday
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There’s no app. It’s using a new API that doesn’t require one.
What does Apple have to do with it? This has been available and working for any state or country that wants to use it since middle of the year.
I have the NHS app, didn't really have that experience... I'm not back for a couple weeks, I'll watch it closer next time
Ohhh, ok. Then that's totally fine. Because governments have definitely been altruistic during all of this and not used the pandemic to extend more and more authority over the most basic decisions people can make in life, much less decisions about employment. What could go wrong with now installing an app directly feeding them data about your movements.
The government is on my side, and you can trust them.
I want a notification when a hypocrite Democrat violates their own restrictions on me about outside and inside dining.
They are the biggest threat to society with their fascism.
By the way, I checked the menu at The French Laundry in Napa Valley. I think Bread & Better is only $35. Tim Cook probably eats there!
They are the biggest threat to society with their fascism.
By the way, I checked the menu at The French Laundry in Napa Valley. I think Bread & Better is only $35. Tim Cook probably eats there!
Didn't read every comment, but where I live (in Nevada) we've had this for months and 1) Nobody even knows about it and 2) nobody is using it.
I stopped using it after 2 months of having 0 traces and battery being drained at night.
I stopped using it after 2 months of having 0 traces and battery being drained at night.
Perhaps because that isn't what's happening? (And if that is somehow the concern, if that was to happen, it would be something that could already be done long ago in various ways without any apps or anything like that, simply through people carrying phones and/or a combination of other things.)
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As the sayings go, two wrongs don't make a right, and cutting off the nose to spite the face.I want a notification when a hypocrite Democrat violates their own restrictions on me about outside and inside dining.
They are the biggest threat to society with their fascism.
By the way, I checked the menu at The French Laundry in Napa Valley. I think Bread & Better is only $35. Tim Cook probably eats there!
I haven’t been around anyone besides doctors and my immediate family for more than 15 minutes since March. It’s been pleasant.
Agreed. Unfortunately, a lot of us live in the only country on earth where the supposed leader chose to politicize the national response to COVID, largely ignoring the epidemiologists and medical professionals because his own personal benefit and popularity is more important to him that the lives of the everyone else in the country.
It’s almost laughable, isn’t it. I too thought the England/Wales App in the UK came out much later than it should. And from the looks of it, the California app doesn’t do much.
Your entire phone is a tracking device already. No need to download anything.
If the app, whilst installed on your phone is using more than 1% of your battery life, I’d strongly encourage you to give direct feedback to the team who run that app on their website, because that should not be happening. On my phone, it says “-“, over the past 10 days, meaning less than 1%, which should be the normal experience for users of the app.
I noticed this being enabled in California on launch day for the 12 Pro Max. Been using it since.
Hi, Californian here. Very much not under house arrest. Yesterday I took a walk outside with my family, got some curbside pickup items from Home Depot, went to the grocery store, and went for a run. All socially distanced of course. But thank you for your misplaced concern.
Uh this API doesn’t allow anyone to track you. Though if they wanted to (they don’t), they could easily do so as long as you’re carrying a smartphone, with or without exposure notifications.
Same for my wife and I with our 12 Pro Max'es. I think the UC System started using it first - glad to see California is finally going to implement it. Took them long enough!
Mine’s used “-“% over the past 10 days (meaning less than 1%). It could well be the instance on his phone may have a bug, which would be rare and may well be worth a reinstall.
Also the Exposure Notification API itself uses some battery, but it’s not much (around 2% of my daily battery use).
There is no app to install. California is using Apple and Google's Exposure Notifications API, which does not transmit any information to the government. Like I said, it is only when a patient shares their positive test case that their randomized ID is sent to the government's servers to be verified and then shared with other phones that were nearby within last 14 days (the government's servers does not not know which phone is which).
I don’t care about you or your family’s lives, I care about the lives of anyone you might come into contact with - you’re taking chances with other people’s lives. I don’t want anyone else to die because you choose to believe in superstition instead of facts.
Please go ahead and snap your phone in half now, the exposure notification software is already in iOS, it merely waits for you to activate it. Who knows, maybe if you haven’t used enough tinfoil the lizard aliens will activate it without your knowing. Or you could get a ****ing clue and read the spec and understand that this software can’t track you.
Don’t be so ignorant, the telecoms can already track you for decades. The whole point of Apple and google making an api was to prevent tracking.
I felt like crying at that woman who's video went viral where her outside dining was shut down, but a Hollywood production company set up outside catered dining right next to her outside dining for Hollywood stars just to point fingers at her and laugh. These people are hypocrite monsters! DO AS I SAY, NOT AS I DO! This is exactly what communist countries do.
By the way, for perspective, I always wear a mask, and don't even go to restaurants much if ever, but I still got COVID from the Walmart that is still open! So these rules are half baked to say the least!
By the way, for perspective, I always wear a mask, and don't even go to restaurants much if ever, but I still got COVID from the Walmart that is still open! So these rules are half baked to say the least!
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What does that have to do with this?I felt like crying at that woman who's video went viral where her outside dining was shut down, but a Hollywood production company set up outside catered dining right next to her outside dining for Hollywood stars just to point fingers at her and laugh. These people are hypocrite monsters! DO AS I SAY, NOT AS I DO! This is exactly what communist countries do.