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COVID-19 will test the limits of the privacy debate

04/23/2020 Science

[ad_1] By Shashidhar KJ With the unprecedented spread of the COVID19 disease worldwide and the spiraling death count, tech giants like Google and Facebook are stepping up their efforts to help governments contain the outbreak. Earlier this month, The Washington Post reported that Google and Facebook are in talks with …

Despite guarantees, a senator wants Apple and Google CEOs to be ‘personally responsible’ for the privacy of contact tracing

04/22/2020 Technology

[ad_1] Senator Josh Hawley has written to CEOs of Apple and Google, demanding that they be “personally responsible” if their respective companies fail to protect user privacy within their COVID-19 contact tracking technology. In the letter, dated April 21, 2020, he writes: His recently announced project to respond to COVID …