Canada's Covid-tracing app
Jul. 31st, 2020 01:32 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
dagibbsCanada's Covid-contact tracing app is now available. TLDR: I recommend installing & running it.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details…
They're description of the privacy looks ok, though I don't know the details of the implementation (the install doesn't ask for a bunch of unfortunate stuff, at least).
But, as I understand it, Blackberry did a bunch of the work on the security side of this, especially scrutinizing it for security and privacy vulnerabilities... and I'd actually trust us to do a pretty good job on that stuff. So, yeah, as apps go, it is probably pretty trustworthy.
I, personally, worry more about having Bluetooth active on my phone. If you're happy doing that (or do it already for head phones, or whatever), I think this should be fine.
But, I, also, consider contact-tracing important enough that I have installed this, and opened up Bluetooth on my phone.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details…
They're description of the privacy looks ok, though I don't know the details of the implementation (the install doesn't ask for a bunch of unfortunate stuff, at least).
But, as I understand it, Blackberry did a bunch of the work on the security side of this, especially scrutinizing it for security and privacy vulnerabilities... and I'd actually trust us to do a pretty good job on that stuff. So, yeah, as apps go, it is probably pretty trustworthy.
I, personally, worry more about having Bluetooth active on my phone. If you're happy doing that (or do it already for head phones, or whatever), I think this should be fine.
But, I, also, consider contact-tracing important enough that I have installed this, and opened up Bluetooth on my phone.
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Date: 2020-07-31 05:33 pm (UTC)Tweet
BlackBerry
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Jun 18
We commend the Governments of Canada and Ontario for their collaboration on the COVID-19 exposure application announced today. We're honored to partner with our government leaders in this public health effort – by providing our security and privacy expertise to review the app.