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PROTECT YOURSELF
5 years ago
General
In this time of epidemic how we protect ourselves has changed. Maybe you stood in line at the grocery store. Are you worried that you have been exposed to Covid-19 infected person. Now California has released a FREE smart phone app to tell you. The app I completely voluntary. You must install the app. Here is how it works. Once you install the app on your smart phone, it records the randomly generated numbers of any other Bluetooth equipped cell phones close for a few minutes. If someone tests positive for Covid-91 in the next 14 days, they can allow their smart phone Bluetooth RANDOM NUMBER log will be used to notify your phone that you were exposed and include the date of exposure. Now for privacy concerns.
Privacy features in the app
-Bluethooth log events are deleted after they are 14 days old.
-NO personal identifying information leaves your phone.
-No location tracking is collected
-This app has been installed over 4 million times since Dec 02, 2020 without anyone finding and issue
There is much more privacy information at https://canotify.ca.gov/ . Look in the FAQ
So why use this app? It is effective in stopping the spread of the epidemic. 19 other states are already using this app to reduce the epidemic spread. It has been tested by 10,000 ON CAMPUS students at University of California San Diego and was very effective to stop infection spread on the campus.
To get the app, go to https://canotify.ca.gov/ and click on the button for android or apple.
Exposure Notification App Tested At UCSD Now Available To All Californians
Thursday, December 10, 2020
https://www.kpbs.org/news/2020/dec/.....-now-availabl/
UC San Diego Using Virus Tracing App To Help Prevent Campus Outbreaks
Monday, November 9, 2020
https://www.kpbs.org/news/2020/nov/.....ted-statewide/
If you are not in California, you may be in one of the states with a similar app. You can check if your state app is available for android at
https://play.google.com/store/searc.....tact%20tracing
There are similar apps in the Apple Store.
Stay safe out there
TG
Privacy features in the app
-Bluethooth log events are deleted after they are 14 days old.
-NO personal identifying information leaves your phone.
-No location tracking is collected
-This app has been installed over 4 million times since Dec 02, 2020 without anyone finding and issue
There is much more privacy information at https://canotify.ca.gov/ . Look in the FAQ
So why use this app? It is effective in stopping the spread of the epidemic. 19 other states are already using this app to reduce the epidemic spread. It has been tested by 10,000 ON CAMPUS students at University of California San Diego and was very effective to stop infection spread on the campus.
To get the app, go to https://canotify.ca.gov/ and click on the button for android or apple.
Exposure Notification App Tested At UCSD Now Available To All Californians
Thursday, December 10, 2020
https://www.kpbs.org/news/2020/dec/.....-now-availabl/
UC San Diego Using Virus Tracing App To Help Prevent Campus Outbreaks
Monday, November 9, 2020
https://www.kpbs.org/news/2020/nov/.....ted-statewide/
If you are not in California, you may be in one of the states with a similar app. You can check if your state app is available for android at
https://play.google.com/store/searc.....tact%20tracing
There are similar apps in the Apple Store.
Stay safe out there
TG
1) No information leaves my phone except the blue tooth number.
2) Even that is not collected somewhere else, besides someone else's phone.
I know you said they claim it, but I have knowledge of situations where government and Big Tech has lied to me.
We already know that Google can and does, track your location, whether you know it or not.
At some point, determined by the individual, trust has to be placed (or not placed) on an issue. If we never trust anyone or anything, we can do almost nothing for fear of being taken advantage of. On the other hand, trusting everyone or everything is equally as disabling. IMHO, the best is the middle path of trusting someone or something vetted by another we trust or better yet by reality; where we get the most benefits for the least risks.
I see your state does not have such an anonymous app yet. You may want to drop a note to your state health department website, CONTACT page, asking them make one available.
BTW, if you want to read about the security the California app has, it is listed in the FAQ section at the bottom of https://canotify.ca.gov/
Although, since I already got it, and am over it, I shouldn't need it for a few months.