{"id":2787,"date":"2020-06-23T07:31:15","date_gmt":"2020-06-23T14:31:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec523\/?p=2787"},"modified":"2020-06-27T10:25:03","modified_gmt":"2020-06-27T17:25:03","slug":"contact-tracing-apple-and-google-partner-and-release-bluetooth-api","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec523\/2020\/06\/23\/contact-tracing-apple-and-google-partner-and-release-bluetooth-api\/","title":{"rendered":"Contact Tracing &#8211; Apple and Google partner and release bluetooth API"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I saw a meme from a FB friend, who frequently posts questionable conspiracy theorist memes, about the newest iOs and Android updates including contact tracing, so I decided to research and fact check. Turns out, Apple and Google came together to push bluetooth notification technology &#8211; rebranded from contact tracing to exposure notification &#8211; into their latest software updates. Canada is on board with using the technology nationwide, and it has been reported that 22 countries and some U.S. states have expressed interest in using the API. However, some governments have been outspoken in their desire to build their own contact tracing technology.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.apple.com\/covid19\/contacttracing\">https:\/\/www.apple.com\/covid19\/contacttracing<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Here are some other articles analyzing the new exposure notification and its potential impact:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wired.com\/story\/covid-19-contact-tracing-apple-google\/\">https:\/\/www.wired.com\/story\/covid-19-contact-tracing-apple-google\/<\/a><br><br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/interface\/2020\/5\/21\/21265079\/apple-google-covid-19-exposure-notification-bluetooth-limitations-contact-tracing-isolation\">https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/interface\/2020\/5\/21\/21265079\/apple-google-covid-19-exposure-notification-bluetooth-limitations-contact-tracing-isolation<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/apple-google-coronavirus-contact-tracing-tech-states-dont-plan-using-2020-6\">https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/apple-google-coronavirus-contact-tracing-tech-states-dont-plan-using-2020-6<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/technology\/2020\/06\/21\/key-questions-google-apple-contact-tracing-system\/\">https:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/technology\/2020\/06\/21\/key-questions-google-apple-contact-tracing-system\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-wordpress wp-block-embed is-type-wp-embed is-provider-9-to-5-mac\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"SJBSHgPK4C\"><a href=\"https:\/\/9to5mac.com\/2020\/06\/18\/canada-national-contact-tracing-app-apple-api\/\">[Update: Launching July 2] Canada picks Apple\/Google API for nationwide COVID-19 contact tracing app<\/a><\/blockquote><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; visibility: hidden;\" title=\"&#8220;[Update: Launching July 2] Canada picks Apple\/Google API for nationwide COVID-19 contact tracing app&#8221; &#8212; 9to5Mac\" src=\"https:\/\/9to5mac.com\/2020\/06\/18\/canada-national-contact-tracing-app-apple-api\/embed\/#?secret=RyrqSX19Au#?secret=SJBSHgPK4C\" data-secret=\"SJBSHgPK4C\" width=\"500\" height=\"282\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I saw a meme from a FB friend, who frequently posts questionable conspiracy theorist memes, about the newest iOs and Android updates including contact tracing,&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec523\/2020\/06\/23\/contact-tracing-apple-and-google-partner-and-release-bluetooth-api\/\">Read more<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Contact Tracing &#8211; Apple and Google partner and release bluetooth API<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":71771,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2787","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mobiletechnologies","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec523\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2787","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec523\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec523\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec523\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/71771"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec523\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2787"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec523\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2787\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2793,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec523\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2787\/revisions\/2793"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec523\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2787"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec523\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2787"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec523\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2787"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}