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Apple and Google jointly develop a technology for warning the people, if they have infected to be recently come in contact with other found with coronavirus.

you hope that you have the help of a third party, contact-tracing apps efficiently.

encourage, But ultimately, The Practice .

The two companies believe their approach - designed to provide users, whose participation is voluntary, Anonymous addresses to protect privacy.

contact-tracing method would have to function with a smartphone, the Bluetooth-to determine the signals to which the owner had recently found in the vicinity for long enough, to risk of infection.

If you would be one of Those People who tested later positive for the Covid-19 virus, A Warning to the original handset owner.

- No GPS location data or personal information would be included.

"privacy, transparency and consent Are of the utmost importance in these efforts and we look forward to building this functionality in consultation with the affected stakeholders," Apple and Google said in a joint statement.

"to analyze, We Are very open to publish information about our work to others. "

President Trump said his government needed time to the development.

"It is very interesting, but a lot of people worry in relation to the freedom of the person," He Said in a White house Press Conference .

"We're going to Take . a very strong view on it, and we will let you know pretty soon. "

The, the say: "The initiative will require further investigations, but after a quick look it seems to tick The Right boxes, and as regards the selection of the user, the data protection by design and pan-European interoperability. "

But others have found that the success of The Company .

Apple is the developer of iOS. Google is The Company behind Android. The two Operating Systems power the vast majority of smartphones in use.

Some Countries , including Singapore, Israel, South Korea , and Poland - Are already working with people phones on the topic of coronavirus infection warnings.

Other health authorities - including the UK, France and Germany - Are working on their own initiatives. And some municipalities in the USA.

to bring The two technology giants aim the coherence of this by existing third-party apps need to be upgraded, your own solution.

This is the apps would be compatible, so contact tracing would continue to work the way people traveled overseas and came into contact with people with a different tool.

Apple and Google have been working on the effort for about Two Weeks , but not outwardly Revealed their plans to Friday.

If successful, could help the control the Countries that relax you to lock and limit restrictions.

about phone-based games

The Company want to release a software building block known as an API (application programming Interface ), which from the middle of may.

This would allow other apps to run on the same basis.

would be stored involved the records of digital IDs, the expose on remote computer servers, but the companies say that these could not be used, to, a, specific, to the individual's True Identity .

would be held In addition, the contact matching process, the on the mobile phones rather than centrally.

This would make it possible, that someone has said, you should be notified of the quarantine, without anyone else.

The two companies that you plan to use for the protection of privacy, and.

they hope this will convince you-activists, whose approach can be trusted.

Apple and Google say another advantage of this solution is that the developer would not be incompatible, the risk of the iOS and Android versions of their apps, because of a buggy update.

In addition, do you think it would be less taxing on the battery life than the current contact-tracing systems.

- No app needed

Phase two of the initiative is about building, contact-tracing functions in the iOS and Android Operating Systems . Users could then switch the function on and off again, without the need to download an app at all.

- Approved third-party apps, you can always wished for the interaction with the device when.

The facility will be delivered through a future system software update. But the companies have yet to say when this would happen.

"This is a robust solution," they say, suggesting it would be a more complete acquisition when the user download any additional software for yourself.

It also provides The Company The Ability to easily disable the trace, the pandemic ended on a regional basis, if.

While Apple's and Google hope that others see the benefits of the introduction of the concept, this is not guaranteed.

An independent effort - and reveals his own attempt at a privacy-centric solution deliver 1. April.

Over 130 technologists, and scientists involved, and The Group has already been in contact with several European governments.

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Source of news: bbc.com