Today's news: "France is asking Google+Apple to weaken privacy protections around digital contact tracing" --> theguardian.com/world/2020/apr…
The news is misleading, the issues are complex.
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The French+German protocol, known as ROBERT github.com/ROBERT-proximi…, seems more closely aligned with classic contact tracing privacy, but with one large risk.
No, I don't think so. They're making a different privacy tradeoff, and they're *trying* to not create a surveillance database.
And the G+A design does make use of the OS/app API layer to defend against the weakenesses that ROBERT tries to address at the protocol level.