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Google has announced that it will be using Google Play Services to push the COVID-19 tracking system to Android phones | |
| Anonymous Coward User ID: 78939259  Mexico05/21/2020 08:34 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | |
| Anonymous Coward (OP) User ID: 78939259 Mexico05/21/2020 09:22 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: Google has announced that it will be using Google Play Services to push the COVID-19 tracking system to Android phones Tracking everyone like cows. Until the vaccine "cure" is ready. vaccination (n.) 1800, used by British physician Edward Jenner (1749-1823) for the technique he publicized of preventing smallpox by injecting people with the similar but much milder cowpox virus (variolae vaccinae), from vaccine (adj.) "pertaining to cows, from cows" (1798), from Latin vaccinus "from cows," from vacca "cow," a word of uncertain origin. A mild case of cowpox rendered one immune thereafter to smallpox. "The use of the term for diseases other than smallpox is due to Pasteur" [OED] [link to www.etymonline.com (secure)] |
CK Dexter Haven
 User ID: 77028752  Switzerland05/21/2020 09:38 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: Google has announced that it will be using Google Play Services to push the COVID-19 tracking system to Android phones The updates will be rolled out to all Android phones running Android 6.0 Marshmallow and above. The first phase of Google and Apple's Bluetooth contact tracking framework is due next month. Welcome to the new normal. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 78939259 [link to www.theverge.com (secure)] WTF? "push"? Fascist tracking app? They were looking for an excuse to add this kind of "contact tracing" tracking. If this goes live with no way to opt out, my phone stays at home. Or maybe even goes in the trash? |
| Anonymous Coward User ID: 41147290  United States05/21/2020 09:40 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | |
| Question EVERYTHING
Traveler In The Matrix User ID: 77559596 United States05/21/2020 09:41 PM  Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: Google has announced that it will be using Google Play Services to push the COVID-19 tracking system to Android phones The updates will be rolled out to all Android phones running Android 6.0 Marshmallow and above. The first phase of Google and Apple's Bluetooth contact tracking framework is due next month. Welcome to the new normal. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 78939259 [link to www.theverge.com (secure)] This is when I leave my phone at home, and return to the way things used to be. First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win. ~ Mahatma Gandhi "Always, at every moment, there will be the thrill of victory, the sensation of trampling on an enemy who is helpless. If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face—forever." ~ George Orwell "The exact level of tyranny that you're going to live under, is the level of tyranny you put up with." ~Thomas Jefferson "All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to remain silent. ~ Thomas Jefferson |
| Lowkey Cyberpunk
User ID: 77651099 United States05/21/2020 09:55 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: Google has announced that it will be using Google Play Services to push the COVID-19 tracking system to Android phones Even if you've turned off remote locating of your Android phone, be aware that Google can and will just turn it on. I've turned off alerts and still got the state shelter-in-place alert. Android also tracks wifi access points, even if you've turned wifi off. There's an option to turn the tracking off but I've gone into my settings and found it on again. The only reliable way to keep Google from tracking your Android phone is to take the battery out. (and I'm not too sure of that, they probably have a trick up their sleeves) "Yes, yes. Zathras is used to being beast of burden to other people's needs. Very sad life. Probably have very sad death. But, at least there is symmetry." |
| Optoisolator
User ID: 78381653 United States05/21/2020 10:06 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: Google has announced that it will be using Google Play Services to push the COVID-19 tracking system to Android phones Even if you've turned off remote locating of your Android phone, be aware that Google can and will just turn it on. I've turned off alerts and still got the state shelter-in-place alert. Quoting: Lowkey Cyberpunk Android also tracks wifi access points, even if you've turned wifi off. There's an option to turn the tracking off but I've gone into my settings and found it on again. The only reliable way to keep Google from tracking your Android phone is to take the battery out. (and I'm not too sure of that, they probably have a trick up their sleeves) Thread: The real reason almost all cell phones don't have a removable battery nowadays... Opto_isolator |
| Anonymous Coward User ID: 77651099 United States05/21/2020 10:12 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: Google has announced that it will be using Google Play Services to push the COVID-19 tracking system to Android phones Even if you've turned off remote locating of your Android phone, be aware that Google can and will just turn it on. I've turned off alerts and still got the state shelter-in-place alert. Quoting: Lowkey Cyberpunk Android also tracks wifi access points, even if you've turned wifi off. There's an option to turn the tracking off but I've gone into my settings and found it on again. The only reliable way to keep Google from tracking your Android phone is to take the battery out. (and I'm not too sure of that, they probably have a trick up their sleeves) Thread: The real reason almost all cell phones don't have a removable battery nowadays... Yah, that's a pretty good trick. |
| Anonymous Coward User ID: 56636228  United Kingdom05/21/2020 10:18 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: Google has announced that it will be using Google Play Services to push the COVID-19 tracking system to Android phones Mobile phone networks are already tracking peoples movements via the cellular grid. Google et al presumably don't have access to this and want to collect data of their own, illegally?? |
| TruthInvestigator
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| Anonymous Coward User ID: 77189752  Albania05/21/2020 10:23 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: Google has announced that it will be using Google Play Services to push the COVID-19 tracking system to Android phones Just buy a POS phone off ebay that doesnt have all that shit. GPS cameras etc. Something like this. [link to www.ebay.com (secure)] This fukin thing doesn't even have 4G. |
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