Google exploring using location tracking to slow coronavirus spread

Alphabet Inc’s Google is exploring ways to use location tracking information to slow the spread of the coronavirus by, for example, determining the effectiveness of social distancing. U.S. Senator Ed Markey, who has long championed consumer privacy, urged caution with the government’s efforts to partner with big tech companies to track the coronavirus.
Reuters:In a letter to Michael Kratsios, the White House’s chief technology officer, Markey cited a Washington Post report that