27-04-2020 20:00 via macrumors.com

UK Pursues Centralized Coronavirus Contact Tracking App, Rejects Apple-Google Solution

The UK's National Health Service (NHS) is moving forward with plans to create an app for tracking coronavirus exposure that does not rely on APIs created by Apple and Google, reports the BBC.Apple and Google's Exposure Notification System
Apple and Google's coronavirus tracking solution is decentralized for privacy purposes, while the UK wants a centralized solution. In the UK's version, the app logs data when people are near one another, using a computer server to determine who to send alerts t
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