[mschuster91]

> So the alternative variants that go under that brand are probably a dead letter.

Government-mandated alternative applications will probably be excepted, too.

[tpush]

Nope, explicitly not [1]:

"Those privacy principles are not going to change," said Gary Davis, Apple's global director of privacy. "They are fundamental privacy principles that are needed to make this work."

[1] https://appleinsider.com/articles/20/04/24/apple-google-in-a...

[pgeorgi]

That's what INRIA and Fraunhofer thought as well, yet their approach is now dead.

[mschuster91]

The Fraunhofer approach with centralized data collection is dead because they got a shit-tornado from researchers and the experienced general public.