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Apple & Google develop COVID-19 contact tracing technology

iOS and Android applications for tracking Apple and Google contacts, using a common API

It is one of the few situations when two large and rival companies end up collaborating together to implement a technology using a API (Application Programming Interface) common.
Through this API, smartphones will use Bluetooth technology to track contacts with COVID-19. With the user's consent, the smartphone will send medical information to a cloud, including the coronavirus test result.
It is not about alerting applications of people near someone who has tested positive, but about a system through which we can find out if we have been in contact with or in the vicinity of a positive person.

This idea of ​​detecting Apple and Google contacts appeared in mid-March, when a team of engineers from Apple came up with several ideas to reduce the spread of COVID-19.
The speed with which the idea took shape and reached an advanced state of development is astonishing. In just a few weeks, several teams from Apple, including the healthcare division, the division dealing with location services, cryptography experts and software engineers, brought the project initially called "Bubble" to a very advanced stage.

At the end of March, this project was joined by Google, which is developing something similar separately, under the code name "Apollo". The meeting between Google CEO Sundar Pichai and Tim Cook, Apple CEO, initialed the collaboration for the development of a common API that will be integrated from May 1, 2020 on both iOS 14 and Android 11.
This technology will be able to benefit all government institutions from all over the world, which want to integrate into their own applications a system for tracking people with COVID-19 and even for alerting people in the vicinity.

It should be noted that all this data will be decentralized and kept encrypted. Their distribution to other devices will be done only with the user's consent.

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