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scenarios to lessen risks.
6. The movements and interactions of COVID-positive users are revealed to a
much greater extent by some manual contact tracing methods.
7. Any app capturing BLE RPIs that is detected in Google Play's rigorous
review process would be removed from the Play Store.

7. Google Play’s policies forbid the malicious use of BLE scanning, and
Play’s rigorous review processes are designed to detect it. Any app
found to be explicitly capturing BLE RPIs will be removed.

#### Additional considerations

**Cuckoo filter approach as a mitigation**
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* Signal strength can be assumed to be invariant between adjacent frames
and can therefore also be used to link sources across frames.

For the sake of transparency, we note that this issue was confirmed on a
subset of Android devices globally. These issues likely resulted from
how certain OEMs have implemented Bluetooth since, for the reasons noted
above, the [Android Compatibility Definition Document](https://source.android.com/compatibility/10/android-10-cdd#7_4_3_bluetooth) (CDD) does not
require rotation in sync. After extensive testing, a change to EN has
nevertheless been rolled out that removes this opportunity for
device-specific misbehavior with respect to EN for all devices. The RPI
is now set to a globally fixed value for a small number of BLE frames
surrounding the RPI rollover.

As noted above, Google Play’s policies forbid the malicious use of BLE
scanning, and Play’s rigorous review processes are designed to detect
it. Any app found to be explicitly capturing BLE RPIs will be removed.

### Linking diagnosis keys through export file analysis

**Concern**
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