Apple and Google detail bold and ambitious plan to track COVID-19 at scale

Ars Technica
By Dan GoodinApr 11, 2020, 8:35 am835 pts
Enlarge (credit: Google) In a bold and ambitious collaboration, Apple and Google are developing a smartphone platform that tries to track the spread of the novel coronavirus at scale and at the same time preserve the privacy of iOS and Android users who opt in to it. The cross-platform system will use the…

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