[shados]

I don't know what kind of proof you want, but I just looked at my phone settings after reading your comment. The exposure notification option is there and it's off. The region selection is grayed out because of it. Yet I got the app (uninstalled it after I saw this on hacker news).

I did get a notification when it got installed but I thought it was just a push similar to amber alerts. I didn't realize it installed something at the time.

Still, exposure notification was never turned on.

[nverno]

I'm in Boston and it wasn't installed on my phone (exposure notifications have always been off AFAIK). I'm on old iphone 5s, not sure if that makes a difference or maybe just specific areas? According to this, https://thesomervillenewsweekly.blog/2021/04/05/massnotify-a..., different cities were piloting at different times, although it all seems opt in.

[shados]

The submission is specifically about a google play app being auto pushed, so being on an iphone would certainly protect you from it :)

[jghn]

Also Boston area. I got a notification on my iPhone that I could turn it on

[notacoward]

Same here. Never opted in, just checked and that hasn't changed. I hadn't even selected a region, so it shouldn't even know which invasive app to install, but I still got it.

[ollien]

Ditto. 10 minutes before I saw this post I declined the opt-in notification for exposure notifications, yet I still had the app.