{"id":45606,"date":"2021-06-19T03:17:23","date_gmt":"2021-06-19T07:17:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pappp.net\/?guid=34c24b62ca8b6b48853868cf4a6f748f"},"modified":"2021-06-19T03:17:23","modified_gmt":"2021-06-19T07:17:23","slug":"massachusetts-health-notifications-app-installed-without-users-knowledge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/?p=45606","title":{"rendered":"Massachusetts health notifications app installed without users\u2019 knowledge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/play.google.com\/store\/apps\/details?id=gov.ma.covid19.exposurenotifications.v3&#038;showAllReviews=true\">Hacker News<\/a><\/p>\n<div style=\"background-color : #fff7d5;\n\t\t\tborder-width : 1px; padding : 5px; border-style : dashed; border-color : #e7d796;margin-bottom : 1em; color : #9a8c59;\">Article note: Two different stories (the other being about smart thermostats being automatically remotely turned up in Huston because the Texas grid is a bad joke: https:\/\/www.ksdk.com\/article\/news\/remote-thermostat-adjustment-texas-energy-shortage\/285-5acf2bc5-54b7-4160-bffe-1f9a5ef4362a ) that are probably about unintended consequences of clicking through innocuous-sounding opt-in things on IoS devices today, and generally about letting third parties fuck with your devices unattended. \n\n...We probably need a regulatory framework around that.  One better than the one the various large incumbents will push for.<\/div><a href=\"https:\/\/news.ycombinator.com\/item?id=27558500\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Comments<\/a>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Comments<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/pappp.net\/?p=45606\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[226],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45606","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45606","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=45606"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45606\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=45606"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=45606"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=45606"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}