RUSH: I don\u2019t know whether I ought to get into this or not because so many people misunderstand things. Well, Governor Newsom here has announced that they\u2019re going to implement a program that Apple has introduced into its latest operating system or maybe a couple operating systems ago. It\u2019s a program that does contact tracing, and states have to initiate the program for it to work, and it is a means of identifying people that have the virus, and steps are taken, therefore, after that.<\/p>\n
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If you go to your phone, if you have an iPhone, let me show you where it is. It is in settings, and it\u2019s called “exposure notifications.” And then under “exposure notifications,” if you tap on “turn on exposure notifications,” you are then given an explanation of what it is. Your phone can tell you if you may have been exposed to COVID-19. Your public health authorities guidelines determine if an exposure is significant enough to notify you and provide next steps.<\/p>\n
Then there\u2019s a little phrase you click on, “How exposure notifications work,” and then there\u2019s a “continue” button. You tap on the “continue” button and you\u2019re asked to select your country or region. So for America you scroll all the way to the bottom of this thing for United States. So I\u2019m here in Florida. I\u2019m gonna check this. I\u2019m gonna see if they\u2019ve turned this on in Florida. They haven\u2019t yet. I check it here regularly. United States. Now you select your state.<\/p>\n
So I gotta come down here, find Florida. There it is. May take a few — “Exposure notifications are not currently available.” Well, Gavin Newsom just announced that they are in California. If you may have been exposed to COVID-19, your phone will tell you based on contact tracing, people that you encounter and run into. You have all the power in the world here. You have the ability to turn this on or not. The state can turn it on and all that, but until you do they can\u2019t do anything to you. And people misunderstand this. And that\u2019s why exposure notifications are not currently available.<\/p>\n
Well, actually they are. Where I live they have already released an app that if you turn it on it will do the same thing. It\u2019s presented as a service. I have not turned it on, and I get notifications repeatedly reminding me to do it. But I haven\u2019t. I downloaded did it. That\u2019s how they know my phone has it. They don\u2019t know who I am. They just know that I\u2019ve got it.<\/p>\n
So I can tell you, I\u2019ve downloaded the ability — the county level that\u2019s done it here. Exposure notifications are not currently available, it says on my phone. Well they certainly are. I just haven\u2019t turned it on. Here\u2019s Gavin Newsom, a couple sound bites explaining this today in Sacramento. He spoke about California\u2019s handling of the pandemic and said this.<\/p>\n
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NEWSOM: Two of California\u2019s best-known headquartered technology companies, Google and Apple, have joined together in an effort to provide for exposure notification, not contact tracing, but exposure notification. The California Notify app we\u2019re putting out is about an opt-in opportunity for individuals to participate in a notification protocol, an opt-in. Not an opt-out. Privacy protected. I remind you, it\u2019s 100% private, 100% secure, 100% voluntary.<\/p>\n
RUSH: This is what I said, you have to opt-in. You have to turn it on. You have to willingly participate. Now, a lot of people, when I\u2019ve told them this, “That\u2019s not true, Rush. You know they\u2019re gonna be able to spy you on whether you turn it on or not.” Okay. Believe what you want. I\u2019m not even gonna spend any more time. I\u2019m just telling you, if you don\u2019t turn it on, they can\u2019t find you. “You wait, Rush. They\u2019ll find you no matter what. That\u2019s who they are.” Okay. Here\u2019s the next Gavin Newsom sound bite. He added this.<\/p>\n
NEWSOM: Here\u2019s how it works. So let\u2019s assume you are Alice and\/or Bob. You\u2019re chatting. You\u2019re very close. You\u2019re not socially distanced, you\u2019re not physically distanced, you\u2019re chatting for a number of minutes. And your cell phones, because you have opted in to this technology, you are automatically, because of Bluetooth, exchanging what we refer to in technological terms as anonymous keys. A few days later you determine — well, you discover, if you\u2019re Alice, that you have tested positive for COVID. And you receive a code via text from the California Department of Public health for the California Notify.<\/p>\n
RUSH: Now, he\u2019s making the point here that if you\u2019re Alice and Bob, you run around and you do a lot of chatting close enough that you might, because of Bluetooth, be detected with the virus, and it would be recorded, your phone would inform authorities because that\u2019s the purpose of the app, the purpose of the program.<\/p>\n
And a few days later, if you opt in, you\u2019ll discover that you tested positive for COVID, and you receive a code via text from the California Department of Health for the California Notify and so forth. But all of this is still under your control. You have to opt-in. You have to turn it on. Now, just don\u2019t do that, and you don\u2019t have to worry about any of this, okay?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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