RE: COVID-19 exposure notification settings begin to go live for iOS users with new update – TechCrunch

2020-05-21 Thread Simon A Fogarty 
Yes but it’s also reliant on development of a covid tracking app for that 
feature to work,
Apple are still tracking things when you install the os update,

We’re just using wifi tracking via enterprise wifi log in and mac address 
tracking through our access points at work,

And I’ve noticed a lot of businesses using qr codes that take name phone and 
email address details.

From: viphone@googlegroups.com  On Behalf Of Richard 
Turner
Sent: Thursday, 21 May 2020 10:29 AM
To: viphone@googlegroups.com
Subject: Re: COVID-19 exposure notification settings begin to go live for iOS 
users with new update – TechCrunch

Covid 19 exposure tracking defaults to off, and this is the explanation that 
shows up below the setting.
When enabled, iPhone can exchange random IDs with other devices using 
Bluetooth. This enables an app to notify you if you may have been exposed to 
COVID-19. Exposure Logging cannot access any data in, or add any data to, the 
Health app.
So, it only notifies you if you have been close enough to someone who reported 
that they have been exposed to the Covidvirus, to give you information so you 
can take further steps to take care of yourself.

Richard
Linus to Charlie Brown: "Worrying won't stop the bad stuff from happening, it 
just stops you from enjoying the good."

Sent with the iPhone SE 2020
www.turner42.com



On May 20, 2020, at 12:20 PM, Kathy Brandt 
mailto:katya20...@gmail.com>> wrote:


https://techcrunch.com/2020/05/20/covid-19-exposure-notification-settings-begin-to-go-live-for-ios-users-with-new-update/
COVID-19 exposure notification settings begin to go live for iOS users with new 
update
Darrell 
Etherington
@etherington
 / 10:01 am PDT • May 20, 2020

[cid:(null)][https://techcrunch-com.cdn.ampproject.org/i/s/techcrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/ios-exposure-notification.jpg?w=1024]

Apple has released iOS 13.5, which includes support for the Exposure 
Notification 
API
 that it co-created with Google to support public health authorities in their 
contact-tracing efforts to combat COVID-19. The API requires third-party apps 
developed by public health authorities for use, and none have yet been 
released, but iOS device users already have access to COVID-19 Exposure Logging 
global settings.

As previewed in the beta release, you can access the Exposure Logging settings 
under the Settings app, then navigate to the Privacy subsection. From there, 
you can select the Health submenu and find the COVID-19 Exposure Logging 
setting, which will be off be default. It can’t be turned on at all until you 
actually get an authorized app to enable them, at which point you’ll receive a 
pop-up asking you to authorize Exposure Notifications access. Once you do, you 
can return here to toggle notifications off, and also manually delete your 
device’s exposure log should you choose to opt out.

Apple and Google both have emphasized that they want as much user control and 
visibility into the Exposure Notification API as possible. They’re using 
randomized, temporary identifiers that are not centrally stored to do the 
exposure notification, and are also forbidding the simultaneous use of 
geolocation services and the Exposure Notification API within the same app. 
This manual control is another step to ensure that users have full control over 
what info they share to participate in the

Re: COVID-19 exposure notification settings begin to go live for iOS users with new update – TechCrunch

2020-05-20 Thread Richard Turner 
Covid 19 exposure tracking defaults to off, and this is the explanation that 
shows up below the setting.
When enabled, iPhone can exchange random IDs with other devices using 
Bluetooth. This enables an app to notify you if you may have been exposed to 
COVID-19. Exposure Logging cannot access any data in, or add any data to, the 
Health app.
So, it only notifies you if you have been close enough to someone who reported 
that they have been exposed to the Covidvirus, to give you information so you 
can take further steps to take care of yourself.

Richard
Linus to Charlie Brown: "Worrying won't stop the bad stuff from happening, it 
just stops you from enjoying the good."

Sent with the iPhone SE 2020
www.turner42.com


On May 20, 2020, at 12:20 PM, Kathy Brandt  wrote:



https://techcrunch.com/2020/05/20/covid-19-exposure-notification-settings-begin-to-go-live-for-ios-users-with-new-update/
COVID-19 exposure notification settings begin to go live for iOS users with new 
update
Darrell 
Etherington
@etherington
 / 10:01 am PDT • May 20, 2020

[cid:(null)][https://techcrunch-com.cdn.ampproject.org/i/s/techcrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/ios-exposure-notification.jpg?w=1024]

Apple has released iOS 13.5, which includes support for the Exposure 
Notification 
API
 that it co-created with Google to support public health authorities in their 
contact-tracing efforts to combat COVID-19. The API requires third-party apps 
developed by public health authorities for use, and none have yet been 
released, but iOS device users already have access to COVID-19 Exposure Logging 
global settings.

As previewed in the beta release, you can access the Exposure Logging settings 
under the Settings app, then navigate to the Privacy subsection. From there, 
you can select the Health submenu and find the COVID-19 Exposure Logging 
setting, which will be off be default. It can’t be turned on at all until you 
actually get an authorized app to enable them, at which point you’ll receive a 
pop-up asking you to authorize Exposure Notifications access. Once you do, you 
can return here to toggle notifications off, and also manually delete your 
device’s exposure log should you choose to opt out.

Apple and Google both have emphasized that they want as much user control and 
visibility into the Exposure Notification API as possible. They’re using 
randomized, temporary identifiers that are not centrally stored to do the 
exposure notification, and are also forbidding the simultaneous use of 
geolocation services and the Exposure Notification API within the same app. 
This manual control is another step to ensure that users have full control over 
what info they share to participate in the system, and when.

Contact tracing is a time-tested strategy for combating the spread of 
infectious disease, and has traditionally worked by attempting to trace 
potential exposure by interviewing infected individuals and learning as much as 
possible about their movements during their infectious period. Modern connected 
devices mean that we can potentially make this far more efficient and accurate, 
but Google and Apple have worked with privacy experts to try to determine a way 
to make this happen without exposing users to privacy risks. Matching also 
happens locally on a user’s device, not in any centralized database.

Apple and Google are currently working with

COVID-19 exposure notification settings begin to go live for iOS users with new update – TechCrunch

2020-05-20 Thread Kathy Brandt 

https://techcrunch.com/2020/05/20/covid-19-exposure-notification-settings-begin-to-go-live-for-ios-users-with-new-update/
COVID-19 exposure notification settings begin to go live for iOS users with new 
update
Darrell Etherington
@etherington/ 10:01 am PDT • May 20, 2020



Apple has released iOS 13.5, which includes support for the Exposure 
Notification API that it co-created with Google to support public health 
authorities in their contact-tracing efforts to combat COVID-19. The API 
requires third-party apps developed by public health authorities for use, and 
none have yet been released, but iOS device users already have access to 
COVID-19 Exposure Logging global settings.

As previewed in the beta release, you can access the Exposure Logging settings 
under the Settings app, then navigate to the Privacy subsection. From there, 
you can select the Health submenu and find the COVID-19 Exposure Logging 
setting, which will be off be default. It can’t be turned on at all until you 
actually get an authorized app to enable them, at which point you’ll receive a 
pop-up asking you to authorize Exposure Notifications access. Once you do, you 
can return here to toggle notifications off, and also manually delete your 
device’s exposure log should you choose to opt out.

Apple and Google both have emphasized that they want as much user control and 
visibility into the Exposure Notification API as possible. They’re using 
randomized, temporary identifiers that are not centrally stored to do the 
exposure notification, and are also forbidding the simultaneous use of 
geolocation services and the Exposure Notification API within the same app. 
This manual control is another step to ensure that users have full control over 
what info they share to participate in the system, and when.

Contact tracing is a time-tested strategy for combating the spread of 
infectious disease, and has traditionally worked by attempting to trace 
potential exposure by interviewing infected individuals and learning as much as 
possible about their movements during their infectious period. Modern connected 
devices mean that we can potentially make this far more efficient and accurate, 
but Google and Apple have worked with privacy experts to try to determine a way 
to make this happen without exposing users to privacy risks. Matching also 
happens locally on a user’s device, not in any centralized database.

Apple and Google are currently working with public health authorities who are 
building apps based on this API, and the companies also have noted that this is 
a temporary measure that has been designed from the beginning to be disabled 
once the threat of COVID-19 has passed.




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