Apple, Google ban use of location tracking in contact tracing apps

Apple and Alphabet Inc’s Google on Monday said they would ban the use of location tracking in apps that use a new contact tracing system on which the two firms are working in conjunction.
Apple and Google, whose operating systems power 99% of smart phones, said last month they would work together to create a system for notifying people who have been near others who have tested positive for COVID-19, the disease caused by the coronavirus.
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