16.04.2020 GOOGLE Daily Analysis

16.04.2020 GOOGLE Daily Analysis

Smartphone software makers Alphabet (NASDAQ: GOOGL)'s Google and Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) will have to convince the public that any contact tracking technology to track who has been exposed to the new coronavirus will not lead to a violation of their privacy, Senator Richard Blumenthal said on Wednesday. A critical factor in re-opening economies shuttered by the coronavirus pandemic is the ability to identify who has come into contact with carriers so that public health officials can control a resurgence of the COVID-19 disease caused by the virus. This contact tracing effort got a boost recently when Google and Apple said they were collaborating on technology to help identify people who have crossed paths with a contagious person and alert them.