By this definition, Apple and all the COVID tracker agencies that integrated with them installed trackers on all the iPhones.

The only difference between the Google implementation and the Apple implementation is that the Google implementation required an app install to configure which system to report positives to and to get positive tracker IDs from, while Apple did not require an app install to get that configuration.

The claim that the app was automatically activated, configuring data to be sent to and from MA, was made out of whole cloth by the blogger. Here is an accurate description of the lawsuit from when it was filed: https://archive.is/2022.11.22-132721/https://www.bostonglobe...