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Mac OS Ken: 05.14.2020

Mac OS Ken

Ken Ray

Technology

4.7997 Ratings

🗓️ 14 May 2020

⏱️ 16 minutes

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Summary

- Contact Tracing: Silicon Valley Versus Parts of the Planet - Going Alone on Contact Tracing May Not be Great for Great Britain - Report: Australia Shifting to Apple/Google API After Failed Solo Attempt - Utah Goes for Data Heavy Contact Tracing Solution - Apple VP for Public Policy and Government Affairs Steps Down - Apple Inks First-Look Deal with Scott Free Productions - Boston Cop Calls Peacock with Cellphone - Addigy - An Apple Device Management Solution That Scales With You. Learn more at addigy.com/macosken - Do you have a Few Minutes for "In a Few Minutes?" It's in Apple Podcasts and Overcast now! - Power what we do next for as little as $1 a month. Join the Mac OS Ken Test Kitchen at Patreon at Patreon.com/macosken - Send me an email: info@macosken.com or call (716)780-4080!

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0:00.0

This is Mac OSKIN.

0:12.2

The current state of contact tracing apps Apple loses and exact a politics and Scott Free

0:18.4

costs Apple some quat lose.

0:21.6

It is Thursday the 14th of May 2020.

0:25.0

I'm Ken Ray and this is news from Maco West Ken

0:31.0

brought to you by yours truly and sponsored by Adigie an Apple device

0:36.2

management solution that scales with you. Find out more at A D. D. I G Y Adig G.

0:45.0

Adigy.

0:50.0

Maco S Ken. This show is also supported by people like you, patrons through Patreon.

0:56.0

Find out more and add your support at patreon.com slash Macoaskan. dot com slash makoes can

1:06.4

contact tracing am I right

1:09.6

more to the point are apple and google right

1:13.0

several weeks ago the the Tech Titans committed to building an API that would keep track of when people were around other people who had tested positive for COVID-19,

1:22.0

without keeping track of who these people were.

1:26.0

Favoring a decentralized approach, each phone would store a sort of signature from each other

1:31.8

phone it had been around, anonymized, and inaccessible.

1:37.2

A centralized approach would have that information stored on some central server or servers with little expectation of privacy for the contacts being

1:46.2

traced.

1:47.2

You want to do that?

1:49.2

Fine, says Apple, but you're locked out of the behind-the-scenes Bluetooth functionality built into our

1:55.3

API. For areas that go their own way, that is proving to be a bit of a problem.

2:02.0

Cult of Mac highlights a Bloomberg report,

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