Location data gathered by Facebook, Google, other tech companies could be used to battle coronavirus spread - The Washington Post
▻https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2020/03/17/white-house-location-data-coronavirus
The U.S. government is in active talks with Facebook, Google and a wide array of tech companies and health experts about how they can use location data gleaned from Americans’ phones to combat the novel coronavirus, including tracking whether people are keeping one another at safe distances to stem the outbreak. Public-health experts are interested in the possibility that private-sector companies could compile the data in anonymous, aggregated form, which they could then use to map the (...)
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