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Yes, I confirmed last night that Settings -> Google -> COVID-19 Exposure Notifications was off. (Aside, I read somewhere but have not confirmed this myself that manually enabling that setting leads to a flow for installing the gov.ma.covid19.exposurenotifications app, whereas the forced update is gov.ma.covid19.exposurenotifications.v3 -- note the extra v3). By the way, MassNotify app is not visible from Play Store search (both on mobile and on desktop -- https://play.google.com/store/search?q=MassNotify) and does not create an icon -- you can only find it in Play Store via its internal name (e.g. a link like https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=gov.ma.covid19...), and would have to specifically look in system dialog for all apps to see if it is installed.



This is scary.

How could the publisher MA Department of Public Health do this themselves, or why would Google allow this?

If Google is pushing it themselves, why the Massachusetts one?!




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