Tech giants Apple and Google will partner to build software that would alert people if they were in contact with someone infected with the coronavirus
SAN FRANCISCO—Apple Inc. and Google will together build software that would alert people if they were in contact with someone infected with the coronavirus, an unprecedented collaboration between two Silicon Valley giants and rivals.
The project is certain to raise privacy concerns but offers the most concrete technological solution to date for governmental authorities searching for ways to lift, at least partially, lockdown orders that have swept across the nation. The companies are by far the world’s biggest smartphone software...
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