Turned off my phone update - latest google / Apple Covid narc software

[Nik H]

Putting a phone in a cage will drain the battery fast if it's on as it takes much more power to try an find a signal to lock on to vs being locked on.

The designers have stopped this as well. Used to be that if you forgot to turn off cellular service on your phone on an airplane on a long flight, battery would be depleted when you landed as it kept trying to establish connection. Now it doesn't do that anymore. I believe that they got smart and plugged the hole. Battery management is a huge area of focus for phone designers as the more stuff they make the phone do, the worse the battery life. Battery technology only moves so fast

 

[MadDuner]

In a boog situation, all those pesky cell towers might just malfunction....

 

[Nik H]

Just an FYI to maybe make people feel a little better...

Contact tracing is called “Exposure Notifications” on iPhone and is turned off at the system level by default. You’ll have to download an app from your local health authority that will require your explicit permission to use anonymous Bluetooth data for it to work when phase one of the rollout starts in May.

Apple and Google have said that phase two of the contact tracing software will allow it to work without a third-party health authority app, but that won’t happen until later this year.

 

[lash]

Nope. Don’t feel any better about it.

 

[bna5017]

Maybe I missed it, but how is a phone of a COVID infected individual aware that they are or have been infected? I'd think that would be the first requirement?

 

[Nik H]

I believe that is why the phones need an approved 3rd party health app to function. I am sure if you had COVID, your name and other details would be registered on some database. Your phone's ESN could also be registered to your name in that database. Therefore, when your phone connects via BT to an adjacent phone; it would read its ESN and through the app check to see if it is in the database.

That is how I think it would work but have no proof of that

 

[BigTex]

I always question whether turning off a setting on your phone, such as the real time listening a la Siri or Google, really turns it off, or if they're all dummy switches.

 

[MadDuner]

Dummy switches.
It turns off the response back to you if you try to say “Hey Siri”, but still listens and sends data for ad targeting.

 

[BigTex]

That's what I always figured.

 

[LeftyJason]

Its not as scary as everyone seems to think it is. There are ways to do it without tracking location. Good cryptography doesn't need location.


This guy also did good videos on exponential growth relating to this crap.

 

[Hobo Hilton]

Maybe I missed it, but how is a phone of a COVID infected individual aware that they are or have been infected? I'd think that would be the first requirement?

Because when a person is tested, they give them their phone number.... So they can call you and tell you are positive... No IPhone, no test.... Getting to that point.

 

[Gunfighter14e2]

The designers have stopped this as well. Used to be that if you forgot to turn off cellular service on your phone on an airplane on a long flight, battery would be depleted when you landed as it kept trying to establish connection. Now it doesn't do that anymore. I believe that they got smart and plugged the hole. Battery management is a huge area of focus for phone designers as the more stuff they make the phone do, the worse the battery life. Battery technology only moves so fast

That may be true, but lots of folks I know are still having that issue with the latest an greatest of tattletale devices. Guess we need to test a few in real time to see the draw difference.

 

[E. Bryant]

But does anyone really trust a sleazy, greedy, leftist company like Google to not somehow try and monetize our private medical information?

Bingo.

The "big tech" companies - specifically Google, Facebook, and Apple - all want to be multi-trillion-dollar companies. So what markets can generate sufficient income to support a 13-figure valuation? It ain't gonna happen with self-driving cars, drone delivery systems, or virtual reality goggles. Basically, the field quickly gets whittled down to government (roughly 40% of GDP across all levels) and healthcare (20% of GDP). [Note that there is substantial overlap and those numbers should not simply be added together.]

So COVID-19 is a great opportunity to attack both market segments simultaneously. Sure, it's supposedly a free service for now, but that's the usual tech company bait-and-switch. Soon they'll find a way to turn each notification into a microtransaction, and once they have their tentacles wrapped around this little piece of everyone's medical history, wouldn't it just be so much easier if they took care of the rest? Just wait until these assholes turn up the lobbying heat against HIPAA.

This is what happens when evil sociopath-geniuses get implicit (or in some cases, explicit) support from the plebs via some combination of the following beliefs: 1) private companies can violate whatever right they wish, because the Constitution is only a constraint on government power; 2) there is no "right to privacy" because you can't find it in the Bill of Rights; 3) private companies should maximize profit over everything else; and 4) monopolies are a Good Thing(tm) because we like winners.

I'm sure that the Justice Department is totally all over this, though. And we'll get some really intense Congressional hearings where Sundar Pichai will get asked Tough Questions(tm) by the people he's bought and paid.