Research analysis logs to answer the question of quality leads.

One of the biggest shortcomings, besides audience, is discoverability. If there was a way for all instances to consume that search content and make it easily accessible inside your instance that'd be awesome.

Think the biggest issue we have in the tech community is this belief that all content should be accessible to all people with no conditions. All things are equal.

Unfortunately, that is not the case. Ask any parent, and I would wager that they feel really strong about what content their kids should be able to access.

Yes, there are aways to bypass, but that doesn't mean we should not deploy some controls to help reduce, limit, its ease of access.

How will it work?

Have you actually read any of the descriptions of how it works? Health data is not transmitted. No information ever leaves the device, with the sole exception of when you choose to notify other that you tested positive. That uploads enough material for all other users to determine if they were ever in the vicinity of your device - but no other information. The only thing that can be determined is whether at some point they were in the vicinity of a device that subsequently reported testing positive.

You might find the FAQ here [1] helpful, but there is also more technical info linked from that page also.

[1] https://www.apple.com/covid19/contacttracing

You make very good points here. Thanks

I run many of my own websites, on my own servers. Thanks for your feedback.

I agree, I could have done a better job of tying it together.

How are those questions intensely political?

Thanks for sharing the spec, I'll give it a read.

I am curious how you believe it's misleading? In its simplest form, is that not how it's going to work in Phase I? User has to input their information, platform will do what it does, health organizations will consume some aspect of that data. It will then be used for notifications when in proximity of others?

In the link you shared, in the intro:

"Exposure Notification makes it possible to combat the spread of the coronavirus — the pathogen that causes COVID-19 — by alerting participants about possible exposure to someone they have recently been in contact with, who has subsequently been positively diagnosed as having the virus. The Exposure Notification Service is the vehicle for implementing exposure notification and uses the Bluetooth Low Energy wireless technology for proximity detection of nearby smartphones, and for the data exchange mechanism. "

The last sentence was "Building a web of social behavior information." Is that in essence what is happening? I am not saying that controls are not going to be implemented, and that data is not going to be protected. I am also not denying the social frameworks that another commentator alluded too.

I am, however, implying that regardless of what you find in documentation, I have been around technology long enough, and at the most senior levels of tech companies, to understand there is a difference between what you read and what a platform can, and can't, do.

Why is that misleading? Is it simplified for users to understand, sure, but dismissing it because it doesn't reference technical specs is a bit shortsighted.

You're right, my article does lean towards a potential dark future. You're also right that it is subjective; it is, by design, an opinion piece not an academic one.