[HN Gopher] Review of New Apple and Google Contact Tracing Protocol
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       Review of New Apple and Google Contact Tracing Protocol
        
       Author : evger
       Score  : 26 points
       Date   : 2020-05-13 09:00 UTC (14 hours ago)
        
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       | 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:
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       | > It is not clarified what [the metadata] will contain and who
       | will have access to it, so let's try to guess.
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       | 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.
        
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