破天荒!Apple、Google暫時言和,打通藍芽系統共同防疫
Apple, Google Plan Virus Tracing on Smartphones
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Apple and Google announced Friday that they're teaming up to build software that would let people use their smartphones to follow the potential spread of the coronavirus. Contact tracing could support governments removing stay-at-home orders.
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The tools would use Bluetooth to keep track of passing smartphones, so that users who test positive for the coronavirus could check the data for the past 14 days to identify anyone who had been close enough to risk infection.
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Those at risk would receive a message on their phone, which the companies said could be something like: "ALERT: You have recently been exposed to someone who has tested positive for Covid-19. Tap for more information."
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The two tech giants, in the largest such collaboration ever, plan to give developers what they need to build the apps in a month or so. The tools are intended to work on iPhone and Android devices.
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The software would not reveal the identity of the infected person to Apple, Google or governments, the companies said. But there are privacy concerns, which President Trump acknowledged Friday, saying his administration would "take a very strong look at it."
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The ACLU said it will work to ensure the technology is employed "only for public health purposes and only for the duration of this pandemic." Apple and Google have come up with a plan that addresses privacy issues, an ACLU lawyer says, "but there is still room for improvement."
Vocabulary
Potential (adj.)
- showing the possibility that something will develop in the future
Trace (v.)
- find or discover by examination
To keep track of something (v phr.)
- to make sure to know that something is happening
Collaboration (n.)
- action of working with someone to make something
Ensure (v.)
- make certain that something will occur
Duration (n.)
- the length of time which something happens
Room for improvement (phr.)
- to able to be improved upon
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