U.S. government, tech industry discussing ways to use smartphone location data to combat coronavirus (Q4176)
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article published on March 18, 2020
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U.S. government, tech industry discussing ways to use smartphone location data to combat coronavirus
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article published on March 18, 2020
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from Google: We’re exploring ways that aggregated anonymized location information could help in the fight against COVID-19. One example could be helping health authorities determine the impact of social distancing, similar to the way we show popular restaurant times and traffic patterns in Google Maps.
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it did not plan to tap its cache of users’ location information to help in so-called “contact tracing” efforts to find people at risk of contracting coronavirus, explaining the data could not be adapted to help in that manner.
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17 March 2020
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