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Android users** I found some COVID tracking crap in my settings

 
Deplorable Azila_Again
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06/19/2020 01:08 PM
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Android users** I found some COVID tracking crap in my settings
I was in my settings, went to google from settings.
There at the top is COVID-19 Exposure Settings


Please tell me what this mess is and how did it get there?

Thanks
The real question is, do you even doodle Bro?
YouAreDreaming

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06/19/2020 01:09 PM
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Re: Android users** I found some COVID tracking crap in my settings
Same they secretly installed it so am leaving my phone at home now permamently.
Deplorable Azila_Again  (OP)

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06/19/2020 01:11 PM
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Re: Android users** I found some COVID tracking crap in my settings
Says it can notify me if I’ve been near someone who has reported having COVID.

Our damn Govt has gone too far kicking everyone’s privacy to the curb.

Ridiculous
The real question is, do you even doodle Bro?
Deplorable Azila_Again  (OP)

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06/19/2020 01:12 PM
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Re: Android users** I found some COVID tracking crap in my settings
Same they secretly installed it so am leaving my phone at home now permamently.
 Quoting: YouAreDreaming


This Country is moving in reverse. Wtf has happened?
The real question is, do you even doodle Bro?
Anonymous Coward
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06/19/2020 01:14 PM
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Re: Android users** I found some COVID tracking crap in my settings
Your phone does a LOT more than just track your covid proximity.
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Thoth's Pyramid

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06/19/2020 01:14 PM
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Re: Android users** I found some COVID tracking crap in my settings
Same they secretly installed it so am leaving my phone at home now permamently.
 Quoting: YouAreDreaming


This Country is moving in reverse. Wtf has happened?
 Quoting: Deplorable Azila_Again


we jumped timelines somehow. maybe its cerns fault.
Deplorable Azila_Again  (OP)

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06/19/2020 01:15 PM
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Re: Android users** I found some COVID tracking crap in my settings
Thank you for the pin.

Seriously though,

The govt control is nothing like I’ve ever seen in my life.
The real question is, do you even doodle Bro?
CK Dexter Haven

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06/19/2020 01:15 PM
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Re: Android users** I found some COVID tracking crap in my settings
Says it can notify me if I’ve been near someone who has reported having COVID.

Our damn Govt has gone too far kicking everyone’s privacy to the curb.

Ridiculous
 Quoting: Deplorable Azila_Again

It's Google

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06/19/2020 01:15 PM
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Re: Android users** I found some COVID tracking crap in my settings
Its to finish uploading an app. So its already there. Here is a little of what I copied from the "learn more":

"How the app may determine exposure
The government public health authority determines which factors might indicate exposure.

If the app learns that you've come in contact with someone who reports themselves as having COVID-19, the system shares with the app:

The day the contact happened.
How long the contact lasted.
The Bluetooth signal strength of that contact.
The public health authority app is not allowed to use your phone's location.

The Exposure Notifications System itself does not use your location or share other users’ identities with the app, Google, or Apple.

If you have COVID-19
In the public health app, you may report yourself as having COVID-19.
The app may ask you to share your random IDs. This helps the public health authority to notify others.
The app may then check if your random IDs are stored on other people's devices. It may alert others who came in contact with you. Those other people won't know your identity."
Anonymous Coward
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06/19/2020 01:16 PM
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Re: Android users** I found some COVID tracking crap in my settings
Fuck you, google
Deplorable Azila_Again  (OP)

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06/19/2020 01:17 PM
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Re: Android users** I found some COVID tracking crap in my settings
Its to finish uploading an app. So its already there. Here is a little of what I copied from the "learn more":

"How the app may determine exposure
The government public health authority determines which factors might indicate exposure.

If the app learns that you've come in contact with someone who reports themselves as having COVID-19, the system shares with the app:

The day the contact happened.
How long the contact lasted.
The Bluetooth signal strength of that contact.
The public health authority app is not allowed to use your phone's location.

The Exposure Notifications System itself does not use your location or share other users’ identities with the app, Google, or Apple.

If you have COVID-19
In the public health app, you may report yourself as having COVID-19.
The app may ask you to share your random IDs. This helps the public health authority to notify others.
The app may then check if your random IDs are stored on other people's devices. It may alert others who came in contact with you. Those other people won't know your identity."
 Quoting: Anonymous Coward 3690403


This pisses me off sooooo much!
The real question is, do you even doodle Bro?
Anonymous Coward
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06/19/2020 01:18 PM
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Re: Android users** I found some COVID tracking crap in my settings
I found it.

Goto settings, google settings.


It says you have to install a 'PARTICIPATING APP' to turn it on. Doesn't seem like it's automatically doing it.
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06/19/2020 01:19 PM
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Re: Android users** I found some COVID tracking crap in my settings
Just checked mine and it is not there but I also have notifications blocked so maybe that has something to do with it?
WonderlandAlice

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06/19/2020 01:19 PM

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Re: Android users** I found some COVID tracking crap in my settings
Thanks! I was just going through my phone looking for Covid apps that had been stealthily installed and then saw your post!

Sneaky Google, I should have known to look under those settings. I normally have my bluetooth turned off, but still, not good.
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06/19/2020 01:21 PM
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Re: Android users** I found some COVID tracking crap in my settings
I was in my settings, went to google from settings.
There at the top is COVID-19 Exposure Settings


Please tell me what this mess is and how did it get there?

Thanks
 Quoting: Deplorable Azila_Again


This was discussed last night, it was in the last update you did.

Throw your phone away go back to land lines.
Anonymous Coward
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06/19/2020 01:22 PM
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Re: Android users** I found some COVID tracking crap in my settings
Remove SIM card

Root your phone

Install custom ROM

Install Google Apps Pico

Insert SIM card


Control the software that is installed on your phone
Anonymous Coward
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06/19/2020 01:22 PM
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Re: Android users** I found some COVID tracking crap in my settings
I found it.

Goto settings, google settings.


It says you have to install a 'PARTICIPATING APP' to turn it on. Doesn't seem like it's automatically doing it.
 Quoting: Anonymous Coward 73169833


"Use the COVID-19 Exposure Notifications System on your Android phone
To help understand whether you've been exposed to someone who reports having COVID-19, you can turn on Exposure Notifications. If you change your mind, you can turn it off.

To use the system, you need to download your public health authority's app.

If you have COVID-19, you may share that info with the app to help alert the people you've been in contact with.
If you've been exposed to someone who has shared they have COVID-19, the app will notify you and give you further instructions."


Yes. The setting are already in place. You go to your local health dept site and download their app.
Hard to believe most people who need to do this, doing it. Obviously its already in place.
uscrusader1

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06/19/2020 01:23 PM

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Re: Android users** I found some COVID tracking crap in my settings
I found it.

Goto settings, google settings.


It says you have to install a 'PARTICIPATING APP' to turn it on. Doesn't seem like it's automatically doing it.
 Quoting: Anonymous Coward 73169833


If you don't activate, someone elses phone near you WILL, and will transmit your private data to the authorities. Your phone is very social and connects with others nearby.
Mistress C

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06/19/2020 01:23 PM

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Re: Android users** I found some COVID tracking crap in my settings
me = flip phone, no problems.
Anonymous Coward
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06/19/2020 01:23 PM
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Re: Android users** I found some COVID tracking crap in my settings
iPhone too. Under settings, privacy and health
Anonymous Coward
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06/19/2020 01:24 PM
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Re: Android users** I found some COVID tracking crap in my settings
This is what we all get when we all go with a major company that is controlled by the US government.

This is what we all get when we turn away from code writers out there who know how to write a great browser but no one will use it.

So would a code writer make a browser when no one will use it because it is not google.
Anonymous Coward
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06/19/2020 01:24 PM
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Re: Android users** I found some COVID tracking crap in my settings
That's what phone zombies get. Happy that I stopped using phones years ago.
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06/19/2020 01:24 PM
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Re: Android users** I found some COVID tracking crap in my settings
Same they secretly installed it so am leaving my phone at home now permamently.
 Quoting: YouAreDreaming


This Country is moving in reverse. Wtf has happened?
 Quoting: Deplorable Azila_Again


You gave up privacy the moment you bought a smart phone.
uscrusader1

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06/19/2020 01:25 PM

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Re: Android users** I found some COVID tracking crap in my settings
Fuck you, google
 Quoting: Anonymous Coward 79001750


Iphones are doing this too.
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06/19/2020 01:25 PM
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Re: Android users** I found some COVID tracking crap in my settings
Same they secretly installed it so am leaving my phone at home now permamently.
 Quoting: YouAreDreaming


This Country is moving in reverse. Wtf has happened?
 Quoting: Deplorable Azila_Again


While people were busy with watching TV, MSM and playing on video games and social media, they have begun the installation of the satanic NWO. Welcome to tyranny.
Anonymous Coward
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06/19/2020 01:26 PM
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Re: Android users** I found some COVID tracking crap in my settings
Wtf i have it too. I turned locatuon and bluetooth off and not installing their public health app. You thimk thats good enough or should i throw my phone in the lake?
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06/19/2020 01:26 PM
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Re: Android users** I found some COVID tracking crap in my settings
Now I know why my Bluetooth keeps turning on all by itself. I'm constantly having to turn it off these days. Fuckin Google.
Deplorable Azila_Again  (OP)

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06/19/2020 01:26 PM
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Re: Android users** I found some COVID tracking crap in my settings
I found it.

Goto settings, google settings.


It says you have to install a 'PARTICIPATING APP' to turn it on. Doesn't seem like it's automatically doing it.
 Quoting: Anonymous Coward 73169833


If you don't activate, someone elses phone near you WILL, and will transmit your private data to the authorities. Your phone is very social and connects with others nearby.
 Quoting: uscrusader1


Insanity
The real question is, do you even doodle Bro?
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06/19/2020 01:26 PM
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Re: Android users** I found some COVID tracking crap in my settings
Confirmed

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Anonymous Coward
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06/19/2020 01:27 PM
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Re: Android users** I found some COVID tracking crap in my settings
Remove SIM card

Root your phone

Install custom ROM

Install Google Apps Pico

Insert SIM card


Control the software that is installed on your phone
 Quoting: Anonymous Coward 77920717


I need someone smart to do it. I have no clue how to do that
Anonymous Coward
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06/19/2020 01:27 PM
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Re: Android users** I found some COVID tracking crap in my settings
Ive been leaving my phone in the car lately. I don't need it inside of a store. Guess I could say I just enjoy sitting in my car in public parking lots. Too afraid to go inside. Maybe next time.





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