Apple: Google, contact tracking with Bluetooth: Android and iOS / API, May release
Apple and Google:
On April 11, the company announced that it would jointly deploy a Bluetooth solution to reduce the COVID-19 pandemic.
User privacy and security are at the heart of the design.
The world’s leading public health authorities, universities and NGOs are developing “opt-in rich contact detection and tracking technology.”
Development schedule:
As a first step, a public health official app was released in May as an Android / iOS device interoperability API.
With this, we aim to realize a rich touch detection / platform based on a wide range of Bluetooth.
This initiative emphasizes privacy, transparency, and consent. In the future, we will focus on the development of this function in consultation with related parties.
A draft version of the technical data, including Bluetooth and encryption specifications and framework material, will be released.
Impress Watch
https://www.watch.impress.co.jp/docs/news/1246541.html
Apple, Google Alert to Coronavirus Exposure
The new system from the two tech giants addresses some of these worries.
It would rely on Bluetooth,
a technology that allows a device to communicate with other devices nearby.
If people choose to participate, their phones will keep a 14-day log of other devices they come into proximity with, whether that’s in a grocery store, on a bus, or along a city street.
Then, if someone tests positive for COVID-19 and chooses to report the result to a contact-tracing app, other users who crossed paths with that person in the past two weeks will be notified, so that they can get tested or self-isolate.
Consumer Reports
https://www.consumerreports.org/coronavirus/apple-google-could-alert-you-to-coronavirus-exposure/