Apple, Google to harness phones for virus tracking

(11 Apr 2020) RESTRICTION SUMMARY: AP CLIENTS ONLY

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Boston, Massachusetts - 10 April 2020
1. SOUNDBITE: (English) Frank Bajak, Associated Press:
"I think that a lot of big tech companies want to do the socially responsible thing and they want to help out. I think everyone, all of us want to do the best that we can with the tools that we've got. And they happen to be in the unique position of controlling the two operating systems that are, you know, on most of the world's phones. The Apple, as we know, iOS, and the Google Android system, which is most popular in the world."
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ARCHIVE: Paris - 18 November 2019
2. Wooden cut-out of Google logo in main lobby of Google Paris headquarters
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Boston, Massachusetts - 10 April 2020
3. SOUNDBITE: (English) Frank Bajak, Associated Press:
"What what needs to be understood first is that Apple and Google are coming into this after developers, public health agencies and governments all around the world have been starting to develop and working on applications that will do this so-called contact tracing. So people who do carry the virus and have tested positive can be able to know whom they might have infected. So what they're essentially doing is they're saying, look, we've got this platform, we're going to build the tools to make it easy for these apps to run."
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ARCHIVE: Cupertino, California - 12 September 2019
4. New iPhones on display during unveil event
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5. SOUNDBITE: (English) Frank Bajak, Associated Press:
"Now, what's important about this from the perspective of Google and Apple is privacy. There's a great concern that governments will get a hold of location data, will know who is infected and could use that information to abuse their civil liberties, right; stigmatize them with problems with that in South Korea, where they used a lot of this stuff. So this would be a privacy-centric contact tracing platform to begin with."
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ARCHIVE: Wuhan- 21 January 2020
6. Police having their temperatures checked
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Boston, Massachusetts - 10 April 2020
7. SOUNDBITE: (English) Frank Bajak, Associated Press:
"What they're trying to do is solve a problem with an invisible, fast moving killer that you need technology a lot of people believe to tackle because so many people who are infected with the virus aren't showing symptoms and they're transmitting it that way."
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ARCHIVE: Cupertino, California - 12 September 2019
8. New iPhones on display
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9. SOUNDBITE: (English) Frank Bajak, Associated Press:
"We understand from the companies is that their aim is not to retain any personally identifiable information about the users, that the use of this will be voluntary. Now, these things all have to be worked out and there's going to be a lot of people watching closely to see whether Apple and Google are actually able to, for example, prevent governments that are running apps on top of their operating systems from retaining that."
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ARCHIVE: Paris, France - 18 November 2019
10. Pan of Google logo in lobby at company headquarters
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12. Mid of Google door mat

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