2021-06-23
I'd say they did - my Android phone has it, and I never installed it and as far as I recall I was never notified of it.
Go to Settings - Google - and there it is: "Covid-19 Exposure Notifications" under the subheading "COVID-19 SUPPORT".
It's turned off (whatever that means - what is the functionality? - does some functionality remain when "turned off"?).
But who knows how long it will remain off? If "they" can install it, then "they" can turn it on.
The Epoch Times has the alert.
What further proof do we need that Google (and no doubt the rest of Big Tech) are conspiring with others (perhaps Big Pharma and Big Government?) to do what they like with our property?
As this is accessed under Settings this appears to be part of the Android operating system, but this is not by any stretch of the imagination a functionality of any operating system - it is an app masquerading as part of the O/S.
In any case it has now appeared on my old Moto G4, which is sufficiently ancient to have been denied Android O/S updates since 2018 ... so it can't be a part of the O/S.
So what is it? I guess that it is a Google "service", inhabiting a sort of private Google domain separate from both the O/S and user apps, that Google installs for its own purposes through its own methods as it sees fit.
Except that Google is supposed to be a tech company, not a medical authority and not an extension of any government agency.
Or perhaps we are now beginning to understand better?
How does it work?
Who sends me these notifications (should I be rash enough to turn it on, or should someone else turn it on anyway)?
What is their import?
Will it tell me that I have caught Covid?
That I need to report for vaccination / revaccination?
That I need to present myself for quarantine?
That I am now eligible to present myself at the local Euthanasia Hub for pain-free termination and ecological disposal (at my own cost) when I decide that I can't take this permanent obsession with pandemics any more?
At the very least this is an invasion of my privacy. At the worst ... well, I'll leave that to your fevered imagination (I have given you a few hints 
).
