What You Need to Know About Apple-Google Contact Tracing
Heritage Explains
Heritage Podcast Network
4.7 • 847 Ratings
🗓️ 22 May 2020
⏱️ 23 minutes
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Summary
Contact tracing has been going on for decades. But now, Google and Apple are aiming to turn smartphones into digital contact tracers. But what does this mean for our privacy? Is this just another grab of our data by big tech? Could this be a way for the government to get our health information? This week, Klon Kitchen walks us through what Google and Apple are proposing, some of the legitimate concerns, and why this effort could serve as an effective tool to fight against the spread of Covid-19 and other diseases in the future.
Show Notes:
Klon’s report referenced in the episode: The Apple–Google Partnership to Fight COVID-19: Understanding the Promises and Perils of Digital Contact Tracing
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| 0:00.0 | From a closet studio in Alexandria, Virginia, I'm Tim Desher, and this is Heritage Explains. |
| 0:16.3 | Remember the early days of cell phones? |
| 0:19.4 | Think back to the 80s. If you can't remember or you weren't alive, |
| 0:25.1 | don't worry, it sounded something like this. Those who think getting a car phone is not for them, |
| 0:31.4 | whatever the reason, haven't kept up with the booming industry of cellular radio telephones. |
| 0:36.5 | Now through this special TV offer, you can receive a Motorola flip phone with cellular |
| 0:41.3 | one service for just pennies a day. |
| 0:43.3 | Now everyone can enjoy the freedom of a personal cellular phone. |
| 0:47.3 | You can make a call anywhere or get a call anytime. |
| 0:50.3 | Stuck in traffic, call and change that meeting before you're late. |
| 0:54.3 | Yeah, Dan, let's change the meeting to 10. |
| 0:56.1 | It wasn't long before people were completely sold on the idea of having a cell phone. |
| 1:01.0 | And the freedom experienced quickly turned into obsession. |
| 1:07.0 | Remember this scene from the movie Zoolander? |
| 1:09.9 | Derek, I thought I told you to turn off your phone. |
| 1:12.6 | Turn off my phone? |
| 1:14.6 | Turn off my phone? |
| 1:16.6 | Yeah. |
| 1:18.6 | Earth to Matilda. This phone is as much a part of me as... |
| 1:22.6 | You know what? Can we just cut it out with all the Earth twos? |
| 1:25.6 | But then 2007 happened. And things got way more interesting, changing the game forever. |
| 1:34.9 | It's amazing what fits in a pocket these days. |
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