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Apple Inc and Alphabet Inc’s Google said on Friday that they will work together to create contact tracing technology that aims to slow the spread of the coronavirus by allowing users to opt into logging other phones they have been near.

The rare collaboration between the two Silicon Valley companies, whose operating systems power 99% of the world’s smartphones, could accelerate usage of apps that aim to get potentially infected individuals into testing or quarantine more quickly.and Alphabet Inc’s Google said on Friday that they will work together to create contact tracing technology that aims to slow the spread of the coronavirus by allowing users to opt into logging other phones they have been near.

Such tracing will play a vital role in managing the virus once lockdown orders end, health experts say. “With Apple and Google, you get all the public health functions you need with a decentralized and privacy-friendly app,” said Michael Veale, University College London legal lecturer involved in European contact tracing system DP3T. Centralized solutions such as those proposed in Britain and Germany would no longer work under the new technology, he said.

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Bullshit!

This is a satanic takeover than needs to be stoped .. even Apples logo with the bite out of if indicates the forbidden fruit Eve and Adam ate from.

Spy grid.. will be trampling all over our rights.

Sithwele kanzima TelkomZA no sympathy

now that america is seeing flames they want to come to the party. anyway, the stories yall bring us? maybe new talent is needed.

Way behind schedule. This should have been done in the very beginning

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