Prohibition of tracking location information in applications that implement the 'new corona virus tracking system' of Apple and Google
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Apple, Google ban use of location tracking in contact tracing apps-Reuters
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-usa-apps-idUSKBN22G28W
Apple and Google to prevent contact tracing apps from tracking your location-TechRepublic
https://www.techrepublic.com/article/apple-and-google-to-prevent-contact-tracing-apps-from-tracking-your-location/
On April 10, 2020, Apple and Google used the smartphone's Bluetooth function as a 'system to identify and alert people who may have been in heavy contact with people infected with the new coronavirus', 'new coronavirus tracking system Was announced. The 'new corona virus tracking system' will be provided with an API to be used by embedding it in a mobile app, and then be incorporated into iOS and Android itself.
Apple and Google integrate `` new corona virus tracking system '' into iOS and Android-GIGAZINE
The technical details of the 'New Coronavirus Tracking System' and questions about security and privacy should be solved by reading the following article.
Answer to questions about security and privacy that float with `` new corona virus tracking system '' jointly announced by Apple and Google-GIGAZINE
And newly released screenshots showing how the app by public health authorities using the 'new corona virus tracking system' that will be incorporated at the OS level will look. The 'New Coronavirus Tracking System' will be available only to public health authorities.
Screenshots showing how `` new corona virus tracking system '' by Apple and Google will be incorporated in OS-GIGAZINE
Apple and Google also attach importance to protecting user privacy in the 'new corona virus tracking system', and it is important to prevent government agencies from using the system to collect user data I will. The 'New Coronavirus Tracking System' itself uses Bluetooth to detect proximity information between smartphones, so it does not use or store GPS location information.
However, a new coronavirus-related app developed by several states in the United States plans to track the user's location information by using the GPS function of the smartphone at the same time as the 'new coronavirus tracking system' of Apple and Google Has been revealed. The app developer said, 'It is important to track the movement of the outbreak of the new coronavirus by using location information and identify the source of infection.'
In contrast, Apple and Google announced that apps using the 'new coronavirus tracking system' will not allow GPS data collection. Both companies say that apps that use the 'New Coronavirus Tracking System' use Bluetooth, so they consume a lot of battery power, and use GPS or other devices is prohibited to save even a little.
However, some apps are pursuing their own approach. 'Healthy Together,' a new coronavirus-related app developed by Utah, is planning an app that will function similarly without the 'new coronavirus tracking system' of Apple and Google. 'If Apple and Google's approach is more effective than our solution and meets the specifications of our current and future public health partners,' said Twenty, a software developer responsible for the development of Healthy Together. We plan to integrate a virus tracking system into our existing applications. '
In addition, 'ABTraceTogether', a new coronavirus-related app developed by Alberta, Canada, does not collect GPS data, but it does not plan to adopt the new coronavirus tracking system of Apple and Google.
In addition, Apple and Google will prevent fragmentation of applications that introduced the new coronavirus tracking system, and have the wider public health authorities adopt the system, so the application using the system is in one country Makes it clear that there is only one. However, countries that recommend a state or regional approach will be allowed to use the new coronavirus tracking system by region, and the US will be allowed to use state by region.
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