Trump throws cold water on Apple-Google's contact tracing system

Last week, we told you that through contact tracking. This will work by allowing both iOS and Android phones to anonymously keep track of other people who pass nearby every five minutes. These anonymous connections are stored in a database on these phones for a couple of weeks. If one of these people has tested positive for coronavirus and has opted-in to the contact tracking, he or she reports this to an app offered by a public health authority. All of the people in his or her phone's database will be alerted that they were in close contact with someone who has contracted COVID-19.

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