Apple and Google are working together to track the spread of coronavirus

• Apple and Google made a major announcement Friday, disclosing their joint work on a contact-tracing service that would eventually use your smartphone to let you know when you’ve come into contact with someone who’s tested positive for the COVID-19 coronavirus.
• Both companies stressed that location data and personally identifiable information would not be compromised once this service is fully operational.
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Apple and Google are teaming up to tackle one of the biggest challenges in the fight against the COVID-19 coronavirus — contact-tracing, something the two smartphone giants are launching a system for whereby they’ll eventually send a notification to users’ phones when they’ve come into contact with someone who has the coronavirus.

In a joint announcement Friday, both companies explained how this will work — and how they also say they’re building robust privacy protections into the service. Apple and Google, the announcement explains, “will be launching a comprehensive solution that includes application programming interfaces (APIs) and operating system-level technology to assist in enabling contact tracing. Given the urgent need, the plan is to implement this solution in two steps while maintaining strong protections around user privacy.”

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