Apple, Google to create contact tracing technology to fight coronavirus spread

) Google said on Friday that they will work together to create contact tracing technology that aims to slow the spread of the coronavirus by allowing users to opt into a system that catalogs other phones they have been near.

They will work together on technology that will allow mobile devices to trade information via Bluetooth connections to alert people when they have been in close proximity with someone who has tested positive for COVID-19, the sometimes deadly respiratory disease associated with the novel coronavirus.

The companies said the technology will not track the location or identity of users, but instead will only capture data about when users’ phones have been near each other, with data being decrypted on the user’s phone rather than the companies’ servers. GPS location data is not part of the effort, the companies said.

Anyone else feel like most countries will have peaked by then?

It isn't Apple's or Google's data to give away. It is the USER's. Why aren't supposed civil rights orgs like ACLU suing to stop this? Because they don't support THESE civil rights.

P.G.P... preatty good privacy....

Scary and frightening.

Stop making stuff in china that’s what they should all do !

Just another reason why I turned off location services a while ago to protect my privacy.

Ali pay already have same technology,apple and google copy it.

covid-19 Should be treated like HIV. Where the person infected is required to tell those around them that they tested positive or risk criminal charges. Positive candidates should not be out in public to begin with

Apple, Google to create contact tracing technology to be repurposed for advertising after coronavirus pandemic. 🙄

That's absolutely helpful especially that contact tracing is a very painstaking task for governments especially from developing countries. 🙂

New age war

Welcome to - G. Orwell - 1984

And hand your information to law enforcement,I disabled all , no trace, StuFF The Establishment

I have no problem. Anyone who still believes in the concept of privacy will shortly be extinct

Nope

Turn off your phone or leave it at home.

Both companies already have it made, to quick to roll it out though.

Zero chance this ends well

Ready for some innovated engineers to start up and rid us of google and Apple plans. Or a new level of leadership to move us away from an Orwellian monitored world.

macdac 🤦‍♀️

A bad move to be abused by dictators.

mynameisjerm Uncle Dave said the same thing right?

Contact tracing = advanced tracking of people; 'where ever you go, whatever you do, apple will be tracking you'

Even with all good intentions, it could go wrong in some many ways! Are the people ready for such kind of technology?

Yeah this won't come back to bite us in the ass in the future...

There we go...

Great.... bet it will become commonplace even after the pandemic ends.

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Great, but what happens to that technology after COVID19 is over? It won't be used for mass surveillance amirite

This is concerning

Pass.

That's great

This new decade is all about attempting the control of humanity.

Hope it will work on 2g here in kashmir

Hmm that is a big brother thing that will kill confidence in them after this virus is over....you know that!

🤔👀

Good. This kind of tech was really important to S. Korea's recovery.

Yikes!!

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