Apple and Google’s respect for privacy in the contract tracing debate is turning the U.S. vs. Europe privacy conversation on its head.
will make their job more difficult. It stands as a clear warning against type casting in this debate.
In Europe, countries like France and the United Kingdom are pushing for aggressive digital contact tracing efforts that involve government collection of broad new caches of location data. They’d store user data in new, government-run centralized databases in order to give public health officials the ability to monitor and warn residents in support of better “test, trace, and isolate” policies.
But Apple and Google have refused to cooperate, despite pressure to do so. As Matthew Green described in, they have designed a system that will work only with contact tracing apps that employ a decentralized model for data storage—meaning that data is held on individual phones, rather than in a centralized database. Your phone will know who you crossed paths with in the park, but Google and Apple won’t.
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