04-10-2020, 01:39 PM
Coming soon from your overly friendly tech giant cops (via NY Times)
3. Apple and Google are working together on tools that would allow people to be notified on their phones if they come in contact with someone who had the coronavirus.
The effort will soon launch as an opt-in app, then be added into the operating systems of billions of iPhones and Android devices within several months. That would enable the smartphones to constantly log other devices they get close to, enabling “contact tracing” of the virus.
3. Apple and Google are working together on tools that would allow people to be notified on their phones if they come in contact with someone who had the coronavirus.
The effort will soon launch as an opt-in app, then be added into the operating systems of billions of iPhones and Android devices within several months. That would enable the smartphones to constantly log other devices they get close to, enabling “contact tracing” of the virus.
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