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ampersandy
on Sept 28, 2020
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Police told not to download NHS Covid-19 app
My first thought is that police policy may require security audits/etc. before they have any location tracking software installed on their phones that may potentially be abused to know the location of police.
dividuum
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Any app using the Expose notification framework is explicitly forbidden from accessing any kind of location information, either GPS or otherwise. See
https://blog.google/documents/72/Exposure_Notifications_Serv...
(3 c i) and
https://developer.apple.com/contact/request/download/Exposur...
(3.3)
adrianmonk
on Sept 28, 2020
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Right, this
could
be as simple as deny by default.
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