On 2020-12-10 09:39, Scott Howard wrote:

> On Wed, Dec 9, 2020 at 1:01 PM Tom Worthington wrote:
> 
>> & comply with the Privacy-Preserving Contact Tracing Protocol from Apple and 
>> Google.
>>
> Unless I'm mistaken, that's not possible.  The Google/Apple APIs are only 
> available to official "public health authorities" (ie, governments), and only 
> a single app is allowed per region.

Could it be that Google & Apple want to be seen to be cooperating with 
governments re Covid-19 while not encouraging technology or concerns about 
privacy which might impact their corporate profits?  Surely not?

It would be far better for Australia to develop its' own "Privacy-Preserving 
Contact Tracing Protocol" according to rules which could be enforced by 
legislated penalties, as I understand was done for the unfortunate CovidSafe 
app.  And the EU provide a better model.

Tom, could your students develop an Australian prototype protocol and 
demonstrate its' practicability?

David Lochrin
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