Fact check: Google is not pushing a COVID-19 tracing app onto Android phones

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Apple and Google are not secretly installing contact-tracing apps on our devices as claimed by various Facebook posts ReutersFactCheck

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) advise people with an Android device to go to Google Services in their phone settings, look for COVID-19 Exposure Notifications on top of the list and turn them off by going to Usage & Diagnostics.

The claim is incorrect. A Google spokeswoman told Reuters that the COVID-19 Exposure Notifications do not indicate that a tracing app has been installed without the user’s consent. The new feature, when turned on, enables contact tracing apps to send the user a notification if they have likely been exposed to COVID-19, but it only works after an app has already been installed.

The NHS tracing app for England so far only works in the Isle of Wight off southern England , and will be rolled out in the rest of England this month.

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You're already signed up for tracing. Your phone spies on you continually. If you get Covid, you'll be identified as such in a government database. Then the government will get your tracking data from Google.

How can so many people be this stupid?

Lol they talkin bout that survey hahaha talkin hacker shit we give up all our info when we start a device or account.. dont like tha shit stay off the net

This is a bit of a pointless report. OK the system itself is not the app but it supports the app. You can't get out of that one. And are we to believe Google and Apple don't spy on us through mobile devices anyway?

SURE ITS NOT. ok

Useless android.

Well, it's in mine. Not activated, certainly, but there... I did not download or agree to it. Here's a snapshot.

If you’re saying they aren’t that means they definitely are

Not or now? 😳

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