Swiss university decides to try Apple & Goggle’s joint app approach on virus tracking

https://www.zdnet.com/article/the-w...p-using-google-and-apples-api-goes-live/

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The pilot version of the app is also available to employees of the EPFL University in Lausanne, and of the ETH University in Zurich, which led the development of the technology. The two Swiss institutions decided to build the app on the basis of a model jointly put forward by Apple and Google last month, which was pitched by the tech giants as the better way to develop contact-tracing technology that incorporates privacy by design.
Apple and Google's API follows a decentralized approach, which means that every operation that might involve privacy is carried out on users' phones, rather than through a central database. At the heart of the concept is the imperative to keep data from being stored, and therefore at risk of being hacked or de-anonymized.

Last week, Apple released iOS 13.5, which includes a new COVID Exposure Notification feature. This feature enables the API that lets health officials and developers build contact-tracing technology.

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