Apple and Google are building a contact-tracing technology that would rely on Bluetooth signals to let smartphone users know when they've come into contact with someone who has COVID-19.
Public health experts say tracing who people infected with the coronavirus have been in contact with is a critical step in easing social distancing restrictions.Public health experts say tracing who people infected with the coronavirus have been in contact with is a critical step in easing social distancing restrictions.Tech giants Apple and Google are teaming up to create a system that would let smartphone users know when they've come into contact with someone who has COVID-19.
The technology would rely on the Bluetooth signals that smartphones can both send out and receive. If a person tests positive for COVID-19, they could notify public health authorities through an app. Those public health apps would then alert anyone whose smartphones had come near the infected person's phone in the prior 14 days.that they will preserve smartphone users' privacy. They say the technology will be used only by public health authorities to trace the spread of the disease.
"Privacy, transparency, and consent are of utmost importance in this effort," the companies said in a joint
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