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scenarios to lessen risks.
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6. The movements and interactions of COVID-positive users are revealed to a
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much greater extent by some manual contact tracing methods.
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7. Any app capturing BLE RPIs that is detected in Google Play's rigorous
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review process would be removed from the Play Store.
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7. Google Play’s policies forbid the malicious use of BLE scanning, and
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Play’s rigorous review processes are designed to detect it. Any app
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found to be explicitly capturing BLE RPIs will be removed.
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#### Additional considerations
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**Cuckoo filter approach as a mitigation**
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* Signal strength can be assumed to be invariant between adjacent frames
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and can therefore also be used to link sources across frames.
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For the sake of transparency, we note that this issue was confirmed on a
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subset of Android devices globally. These issues likely resulted from
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how certain OEMs have implemented Bluetooth since, for the reasons noted
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above, the [Android Compatibility Definition Document](https://source.android.com/compatibility/10/android-10-cdd#7_4_3_bluetooth) (CDD) does not
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require rotation in sync. After extensive testing, a change to EN has
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nevertheless been rolled out that removes this opportunity for
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device-specific misbehavior with respect to EN for all devices. The RPI
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is now set to a globally fixed value for a small number of BLE frames
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surrounding the RPI rollover.
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As noted above, Google Play’s policies forbid the malicious use of BLE
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scanning, and Play’s rigorous review processes are designed to detect
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it. Any app found to be explicitly capturing BLE RPIs will be removed.
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### Linking diagnosis keys through export file analysis
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**Concern**

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