NEW: Apple and Google announce partnership to build new tools that would enable people and health authorities to track the virus using bluetooth proximity data from their smartphones.
Google and Apple said their work would come in two stages. In the first stage, next month, they plan to release a set of tools known as application programming interfaces so that apps created by public health authorities could work on both iPhones and on phones that run Google’s Android operating system.
“This is a more robust solution than an API and would allow more individuals to participate, if they choose to opt in, as well as enable interaction with a broader ecosystem of apps and government health authorities,” the companies said. The idea is that an app could remember, via anonymous Bluetooth signals, which other phones have been nearby. If someone you had coffee with two days ago tests positive for the coronavirus, you would get a notification along the lines of"you may have recently been exposed" — and advising temporary isolation.
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