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Gigantes de smartphones se unen para crear una app para rastrear virus

By Ninian Carter

April 15, 2020 - Los gigantes de la tecnología de smartphones Apple y Google, normalmente rivales feroces, han unido sus fuerzas para crear una aplicación para rastrear coronavirus que se instalará en los sistemas operativos de sus smartphones. La app ayudaría a detener la propagación de las infecciones de Covid-19.

The app, due later this year, would alert users if they have come into contact with somebody infected with coronavirus, allowing them to self-isolate or seek medical advice.

Together, the two technology behemoths control 99% of the world's smartphones, meaning the move could significantly slow the spread of the virus.

The app is based on the “contact trace” principle, whereby a smartphone can detect the presence of other smartphones up to a range of about 2 metres around it, by using Bluetooth short-wavelength UHF radio waves.

For the system to work, people who test positive for the virus would notify a public health app in their country that they have been infected. The public health app would then link that information to the Apple or Google tool, depending on which type of phone they use (iOS or Android operating systems).

Apple or Google would then trigger alerts to handsets that have come near to the infected user's phone within the past 14 days, allowing people to self-isolate or be tested for the virus.

To allay privacy concerns, no GPS location data would be stored and all information would remain anonymous and encrypted.

Apple and Google began work on the app at the beginning of April and hope to have it installed into their operating systems within a few months.

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PUBLISHED: 29/06/2020; STORY: Ninian Carter
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