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This may well be a huge contributor to every country’s plans to escape #COVID19 lockdown. Many will be neurotic about Apple and Google having even more info about where we’ve been and who we’ve seen, even if anonymised. But the sacrifice of... apple.com/uk/newsroom/20…
of some additional privacy to regain freedom of physical movement will, I think, feel like an acceptable price to most
To be clear, Apple and Google are creating a bridge between their smartphone operating systems to monitor all our encounters with other people who carry Apple or Andoid phones, so that if any of us test positive for Covid19, anyone we’ve seen in preceding days...
would be automatically notified. There are apps that already do this in Asia, and Singapore’s has been praised for safeguarding anonymity while also transmitting a need to isolate for anyone who has been in touch with an infected person.
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