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Apple and Google want to turn your phone into a Covid-tracking machine

Vox

The new contact-tracing tool, explained. The new tool brings with it not only hope for a quicker end to the pandemic, but also a host of privacy and security concerns. The contact-tracing tool Apple and Google want to create would have your smartphone log when you’ve come into close contact with other people.

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What Your Customers Are Thinking About Privacy Now

SecureWorld News

When it comes to cybersecurity and data privacy, 2020 is a year of convergence. Along the same lines, contact tracing efforts worldwide are preparing to collect massive amounts of data from participants. Along the same lines, contact tracing efforts worldwide are preparing to collect massive amounts of data from participants.

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Apple and Google look like problematic heroes in the pandemic

Vox

A GovTech staff member demonstrates Singapore’s new contact-tracing smartphone app, called TraceTogether. Apple and Google’s contact-tracing tool has better privacy, but it isn’t perfect. New contact-tracing technology is supposed to go away after the pandemic. Privacy experts aren’t so sure it will.

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The Hacker Mind Podcast: Hacking the Art of Invisibility

ForAllSecure

SO I only mention Ross Ulbricht in talks because I use him as an example of an Operation Security, or OpSec failure. Operational Security is typically a military process. It's basic privacy hygiene. So privacy in my opinion, is on a sliding scale. I've known people who are very open about their social security numbers.

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Apple and Google roll out their new exposure notification tool. Interest seems limited.

Vox

A new software update will allow iPhones and Android devices to use exposure tracing features built into apps from public health authorities. According to the companies, several countries and three US states — Alabama, North Dakota, and South Carolina — will base their digital contact tracing apps on the tool.

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Sen. Ed Markey on the politics of technology

The Verge

Lately, he has been addressing the consumer technology problems highlighted during the pandemic, including the lack of access to broadband at home in rural areas, an education gap with children due to limited internet access, and a threat to privacy with the introduction of contact tracing. Why did you cast that vote?

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