Security News > 2020 > April > Contact Tracing COVID-19 Infections via Smartphone Apps

Google and Apple have announced a joint project to create a privacy-preserving COVID-19 contact tracing app.

Fourth, the public health authorities need geographical data for purposes other than contact tracing - such as to tell the army where to build more field hospitals, and to plan shipments of scarce personal protective equipment.

The efficacy of any app-based contact tracing is still unproven.

EDITED TO ADD: Susan Landau on contact tracing apps and how they're being oversold.

Farzad Mostashari, former coordinator for health IT at the Department of Health and Human Services, on contact tracing apps.

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