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"Speaking of contact, it was during April that we learned how a small team within Apple created a proposal for a contact tracing, or exposure notification, service. Working together with Google, the company devised a system that would mean iPhones a…

in April 2020 in review: iPhone SE, contact tracing, Magic Keyboard for iPad Comment by Richard_L May 2021
JWSC said: Show of hands. Canadian or otherwise, who’s going to install and use any of these contact tracing apps? No fibbing please. 😁 I have downloaded the Swiss Covid app, which was released in Switzerland on June 26. GAEN API exists …

in Canada releases its COVID contact tracing app using the Apple-Google API [u] Comment by Richard_L August 2020
I read in the above 14 posting much speculation about privacy protection tracing apps, and, specifically, about the GAEN API. A European initiative to develop a contact tracing app, the Pan-European Privacy-Preserving Proximity Tracing Initiative (…

in Canada launching national contact tracing app built with Apple-Google API Comment by Richard_L June 2020
Inform yourself about how such an app can help TTIQ (Test, Trace, Isolate, Quarantine) and protect privacy: https://github.com/DP-3T/documents . This is the Swiss Covid app. It is now being tested. Once the Swiss Parliament passes the legislatur…

in Congress plans legislation to regulate contact tracing apps Comment by Richard_L June 2020