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  • France shames Apple for not sacrificing user privacy for COVID-19 app

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    apple ][ said:
    France, my favorite place.

    It's  one of the countries that is high up on my list of places that I will never, ever visit. I've been to many other places in Europe, but luckily, not France yet, nor ever.
    Are you from the USA...? You gained independence from the British because of French aide. If they hadn't buggered up Britain's government over distractions created by King George's inglorious periods of looniness the RedCoats would have whooped your pants.
    GeorgeBMacasdasdwatto_cobra

  • France shames Apple for not sacrificing user privacy for COVID-19 app

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    aderutter said:
    It’s France and the UK NHS who should be shamed.
    For wasting taxpayers money on ineffectual apps that will prove to be useless without using the Apple-Google API.

    Without using the Apple-Google API people will have to have their phone open and unlocked and running the app while they walk around in shops, at work etc. Completely impractical and won’t happen. Given that apparently they need over 50% of the population to do this to make the app work only highlights their seeming ignorance. 

    I am in the UK and no way will I or my family use the NHS app until it uses the Apple-Google API with decentralised data and strict privacy.

    Opportunity lost by UK and France.
    I predict the media having a field day when the apps from other countries work and the apps from France and UK don’t.
    I believe the NHS / UK Gov has not ruled the Apple/Google API out yet. Like you, I won't be using the NHS app unless it drops centralised data collection. Also, let's not forget the UK Gov has the crappiest history of NHS related IT disasters.
    stompywatto_cobra

  • Compared: Pixel Buds versus AirPods and AirPods Pro

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    Sound quality? Let's not enquire about such irrelevances. Especially as Apple iTunes still has such a crappy idea of high quality audio encoding. I was stupid enough to register my interest in subscribing to Apple Music and Apple Music Cloud only to find a month or so later that following a new, fresh OS install, Apple iTunes Store loaded every single music file in my iTunes Library with a data reduced 250Kb file Provided by Apple. Seven years burning hundreds of CD's using lossless algorithms and every single track was replaced with low quality junk because Apple did not make the instructions to subscribers of its new "improved" services clear. I read that 100's of iTunes Libraries fell foul of their cock-up.
    KITA

  • France, UK to test contact tracing apps without Apple and Google technology

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    NHS IT investment has been a masterclass in how to fritter taxpayer money and fill the pockets of Non-governmental private enterprise. As such I would never trust my medical data to a centralised database.
    jony0seanjwatto_cobra

  • Apple Maps' Look Around feature works in three more U.S. cities

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    Needs to be accessible by all computer users, not just iOS, iPad, Mac. It also needs to work on Windows, android and the internet
    kkqd1337