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Governments have to decide whether to scrap their own COVID-19 contact tracing apps in favor of tech built by Apple and Google. Here's what's at stake.

— would rely on anonymized GPS data to track the specific location of COVID-19 outbreaks. The contact tracing tech from Apple and Google doesn't track people's locations at all.location data is crucial as it helps them understand what type of establishments are most in need of targeted social distancing orders.

"Is it happening in a park, a Costco or a Walmart? They are trying to make policy decisions that move our economy from a broad-based 'everything is shut down' to a more targeted approach," Jared Allgood, chief strategy officer for Twenty — the startup which developed Utah's app — toldUnlike the new tech from Apple and Google, it's more difficult to get third-party Bluetooth apps to work on iPhones — and Apple has signaled that it's unwilling to change that.

Meanwhile, the tech being developed by Apple and Google would run in the background of people's phones once they opt in, andMultiple European governments asked Apple to update iOS settings to allow for third-party contact tracing apps, but so far the company

 

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