× Help support our COVID-19 coverage We're providing access to COVID-19 articles for free. Please help support our work by subscribing or signing up for an account. The idea is to help national governments roll out apps for so-called “contact tracing” that will run on iPhones and Android phones alike. Using the Apple-Google technology, contact-tracing apps would gather a record of other phones with which they came into close proximity. Apple and Google plan said in a rare joint announcement that user privacy and security are baked into the design of their plan.

Source: Daily Sun April 10, 2020 22:07 UTC