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Google and Apple ban location tracking in their contact tracing apps

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COVID-19 Data protection

04 May 2020

"Apple and Google have announced that their coronavirus tracing technology will ban the use of location tracking. The announcement could create potential complications for some apps that planned to use the two companies’ system for notifying people of potential exposure to Covid-19."

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Google and Apple ban location tracking in their contact tracing apps (MIT Technology Review, link)

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