Tracking app begins in the US

These people must think the population is dumber than a box of rocks!!! I know a certain percentage ARE but really???
To quote myself, "When pigs fly and my DcK drags the ground".....
 
Hey VA, AL, Google and Apple:

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Tracking app begins in the US
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I've got some bad news for you...

but seriously I've been wondering for 6 months now why this wasn't a thing? It's not like they don't know already. If you have a smartphone you can retrace your steps back to the moment you first turned it on.
 
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If you didn’t know it’s already in iOS, here’s what’s available:

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new york is setting up border control checkpoints to prohibit travel for some (14th amendment), forcing quarantines for others (5th amendment), and sending "teams" out to find you, fine you, and prosecute you if you don't answer their phone calls and respond the way they want you to (1, 4, 5, 6, 7, and 8th amendments)
 
Any word about this for android devices?

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https://www.forbes.com/sites/daveyw...racking-and-contact-tracing-app/#2518d4247242


Is there a COVID-19 tracking app on your phone?

OK, let's get this out of the way once and for all: the COVID-19 exposure notifications framework that has been included in both Android and iOS platform updates is not an app. It's an application programming interface (API) to enable tracking, or contact tracing, apps to work correctly when they are installed.

Indeed, as an Android user myself, when I click on the exposure notifications entry, it tells me that I must either install or finish setting up the participating app before the notifications can be turned on. A joint statement from Apple and Google, published May 20, makes this very clear: "What we’ve built is not an app - rather public health agencies will incorporate the API into their own apps that people install."

So, if you haven't installed an official state or government tracking app, there's nothing to worry about. Or so you might think, but not everyone would agree with you as my mailbox so aptly demonstrates. I even took to Twitter to gauge the feeling of people when it comes to installing and using an Apple or Google COVID-19 exposure notification based tracking app, when available. With just 231 people taking part in my poll, it's not a statistically valid thing, but that's beside the point.

The point is that it reflected what I already knew, that opinion is split down the middle on this issue: 40.7% said yes, 46.8% no with 12.6% as yet undecided.

A recent study by Avira suggests that 71% of Americans won't download such an app, 88% of those aged 55 or over and 84% of government or healthcare workers. The biggest concern amongst that sample was privacy, closely followed by a false sense of security.

Interestingly, that mirrors the responses of my small sample. Most of those in the no camp were worried either by what governments intended to do with the data or whether the technology involved even worked well enough to be effective. One thing is clear, for any such system to be effective it has to have the backing of the public. "User adoption is key to success," the joint Apple and Google statement said, "we believe that these strong privacy protections are also the best way to encourage use of these apps."
 
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Unfortunate they want to track law abiding citizens when this technology along with ankle GPS could be used to keep felons on early release or on bail awaiting trial for new crimes under close watch.
 
What those who poo-poo the nay-sayers on such matters as this fail to realize is that TRUST IS EARNED.

And trust that's been violated...especially REPEATEDLY...is not easily regained.

Government and private industry have repeatedly demonstrated a complete lack of respect for privacy concerns, most especially in modern times since the advent of computers, phones, and data networks like the internet and whatnot.

Government sanctioned spying (of which the PATRIOT ACT is but one example), spying on political candidates, corporations tracking/buying/selling/trading in personal information, failure to adequately protect people's data/information, failure to stand up and notify people promptly for data breaches, making it difficult for people to recover their assets/lives when such thefts happen under their watch, etc.

Every day we hear about such examples. And the legal excuse for these people in many cases basically amounts to "well, there's no law AGAINST this...".

In other words "We'll give it to you up the pooper and there's nothing you can do about it."

Add to this the fact that since a LOT of this is in the tech industry where consumers literally cannot see, or know, how the software actually works, this means the consumers DON'T HAVE ANY WAY OF REALLY KNOWING WHAT OR HOW SUCH THINGS ACTUALLY WORK.

SO...is it really any surprise when a company comes out with a tracking app, saying "it's all on your phone, no information is ONLY locally generated and transmitted between nearby phones with the app and not servers tracking your every move" that most people are saying "Oh, reeeeeeally, now? I don't believe you."
 
RedneckFur is correct:

Anomaly Six LLC a Virginia-based company founded by two U.S. military veterans with a background in intelligence,
said in marketing material it is able to draw location data from more than 500 mobile applications, in part through its own software development kit,
or SDK, that is embedded directly in some of the apps. An SDK allows the company to obtain the phone’s location if consumers have allowed the app
containing the software to access the phone’s GPS coordinates.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/u-s-go...to-track-phones-11596808801?mod=djemalertNEWS
 
Never owned a cell phone.... never will. Dont want one either even before all this.

Red Flag for everyone should have been government provided Obama phones.
 
Most of the time my cell phone can't hold a signal for more than 5 minutes and I rarely ever complete a call without being dropped. Like I've said it before, and I'll say it again. Our saving grace is that the government is by and large incompetent. I would not be surprised if we all requested that the government track us 24/7 that withing a few weeks (months) they lost half of us.
 
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If you own a cell phone you're already being tracked.

This one only tells you if you've been near a sick person while you were being tracked.
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The government now knows that I spend a huge amount of time sitting on top of my dresser.
 
Seems to me that it wouldn't be a bad idea to have a couple pre paid flip phones on hand. Anyone have a suggestion for such a thing? Asking for a neighbor.
 
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Seems to me that it wouldn't be a bad idea to have a couple pre paid flip phones on hand. Anyone have a suggestion for such a thing? Asking for a neighbor.
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Walmart has a Tracfone flip phone for $19 you would have to have a Tracfone card on hand but it could be a good option.


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