[HN Gopher] Review of New Apple and Google Contact Tracing Protocol ___________________________________________________________________ Review of New Apple and Google Contact Tracing Protocol Author : evger Score : 26 points Date : 2020-05-13 09:00 UTC (14 hours ago) (HTM) web link (medium.com) (TXT) w3m dump (medium.com) | snoopt wrote: | Would it be available for the public testing or just developers? | evger wrote: | On April 24th 2020 Apple & Google have announced a new version of | the Apple & Google Contact Tracing Protocol which they programmed | in a joint effort. Now it's to be called "Exposure Notification | Technology", since this name better describes the nature of the | protocol. On 29th of April Apple released the first iOS 13.5 beta | implementation of the protocol. This beta version targets | developers for API testing and collecting feedback. The access to | the API will be limited to apps authorised by public health | authorities. This update is a reaction to the criticism (most of | which was baseless) as well as several technical changes | implemented in versions 1.1 and 1.2 of this protocol. We are | going to discuss these changes in this article. | smithza wrote: | I ponder whether Google and Apple (aka Big Brother) should have | given this work to another group and promised | implementation/integration. I appreciate that your group is | working on making it open source but as you pointed out: | | > It is not clarified what [the metadata] will contain and who | will have access to it, so let's try to guess. | | At the least, I would want Apple/Google to fully disclose these | technical details before I would accept its terms & conditions. | If they even put their logic in an open source format (i.e. | GitHub), I would feel more comfortable. Google is a much worse | player in the game of "making money from users by tracing their | every move" than Apple. ___________________________________________________________________ (page generated 2020-05-13 23:00 UTC)