Google plans to use some of the vast trove of data that it collects to help fight the coronavirus pandemic. Designed to aid public-health officials, the new initiative will tap location information in 131 countries to track to what extent communities are heeding social distancing measures. The initiative is sure to raise privacy concerns, and the outline of the project sought to address how user...
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