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- Analysis: Digital contact tracing is an inaccurate epidemiological tool, prone to deliberate misuse, and creates privacy issues (Ashkan Soltani, Ryan Calo, Carl Bergstrom / Brookings)
- Apple and Google make exposure notification API available; 22 countries and multiple states that requested access will now be able to release apps that access the API (Darrell Etherington / TechCrunch)
- Apple and Google release developer resources for Exposure Notification UI; Includes policies barring location tracking, limiting to one app per country, and requiring explicit user permissions (Darrell Etherington / TechCrunch)
- The inside story of how Apple and Google employees came together to develop their contact tracing toolkit (Christina Farr / CNBC)
- Some states are forging ahead with their own contact tracing apps, ranging from GPS tracking to personal contact diaries (Alice Miranda Ollstein, Mohana Ravindranath / Politico)
- Rhode Island hires Infosys to create COVID-19 contact tracing app; “CRUSH COVID RI” app uses location tracking to create a location diary for each user (Release / Infosys)
- Republican senators introduce bill that would increase privacy protections for consumer data related to COVID-19 contact tracing; Bill is unlikely to get passed (Dave Muoio / Mobihealthnews)
