Just discovered that my phone has COVID tracing app notifications..check yours and disable it if it's on!
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The love of having a rooted android with a custom ROM!!! lol.....Yea that stuff you had no idea was even there...I mean I get it but, its kinda not right for carriers to force features!
LineageOS for me. My own custom build.
If they try sneaking it into AOSP, I'll just comment the fucker out and compile away.
You really shouldn't bring a cellphone anywhere you go. Or keep it in a faraday pouch in case you need it for an actual emergency.
How do you check and see if it's installed on an Iphone?
I don't know how it is on an iPhone, but I found it here in mine under the Google section:
https://i.ibb.co/MVMZ88W/Screenshot-20201215-144850.jpg
I imagine it's in the same way somewhere in the menu.
iOS:
In Settings -> Exposure Notifications [towards the bottom near Privacy and Battery]
Yes, disable it, but don't panic.
If it's enabled but you haven't also installed a separate tracking app, it's can't do anything. All "enable" does is allow the tracking app to get at the data it needs. (Which should be filed under MYOB).
If you think OMG! they can track me anyway with the app, it was true before the contract tracing was added to ioS 13.7+ and whatever version of Android they stuck it in last year.
BT sucks for contact tracing.
Being near a Bluetooth device is a piss poor indicator of who you interact with. If you live in a multi-family dwelling or a dense neighborhood, even if you never see those other people, you are still too close according to bluetooth. Enough people have phones that it'll have gaps there.
The rest: TLDR: The government and other companies can already track you.
They don't need the contract tracing Interface to track you. Facebook might already do it if you and your buddy are both posting side by side and FB knows where you are since you are both on the same public wifi. They don't need another tracking app, you already installed FB. Twitter will post your location when you tweet, if that feature is turned on. The government can find you too. Verizon and other already sold your location data w/o asking you. Even Orwell didn't dream of this in 1984.
GREAT answer! Thanks for your time and input. I learned some things and now feel calmer about the privacy issue's we're all facing.
What platform?
Android. It was under the menu options for Google.
Can confirm. Google also tried to suggest an app for me this morning to install. I straight up noped on that. Wishing for a good market-ready linux phone plz. iOS & Android are both equally as bad on privacy.
I know of a few but they're very unreliable
TY I knew iPhones had it. Makes me glad we went back to flip phones last month!!!!
iPhone?
No, it's an Android. OnePlus 7T Pro.
One more reason after this phone breaks I'm switching to a flip phone
WA state one keeps bugging me to install. Every time it does I report the app for illegal activity and tell them to fuck off and stop already.