The major European contact tracing technical coalition has found itself at odds with both smartphone manufacturers and privacy advocates.
If anyone were to get hold of this list—perhaps a spy agency or a hacker—they could use it to track you out in the real world. And for anyone unfortunate enough to be diagnosed with COVID-19, the hacker will also gain a complete list of all their social contacts.
As if this isn’t concerning enough, PEPP-PT’s approach puts Europe in conflict with preexisting software rules for Apple iOS apps, rules that prevent third-party apps from running in the background and broadcasting Bluetooth signals. Those rules were developed for a very specific reason: to prevent abuse by advertising companies, which have tried to embed tracking code into various apps in order to track users in the real world.
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