US senator says Apple, Google need to show contact tracing will not violate privacy | Malay Mail

Thursday, 16 Apr 2020 07:47 AM MYT

“Apple and Google have a lot of work to do to convince a rightfully skeptical public that they are fully serious about the privacy and security of their contact tracing efforts,” he said in a statement. “I urgently want to know how Apple and Google will assure that consumers’ privacy interests are strongly balanced with the legitimate needs of public health officials during the coronavirus pandemic,” said Blumenthal, who has been outspoken about privacy issues raised by the powerful tech companies.

The companies said they started developing the technology in March to streamline technical differences between Apple's iPhones and Google's Android that had stymied the interoperation of some existing contact tracing apps.

hahahaha! Who is this senile btw? G👀gle, especially thrived on violating privacy.

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