Apple and Google team up to send you notifications if you've been exposed to COVID-19

Apple and Google team up to send you notifications if you've been exposed to COVID-19

+Apple and Google teamed up to develop push notifications that let iOS and Android users know if they might have been exposed to COVID-19.

The companies announced the news on Tuesday and the effort is called Exposure Notifications Express.

It's an opt-in based system that lets your local public health agency alert you to potential coronavirus exposure via a notice on your smartphone.

It'll also allow the agency to guide residents on actions to take if they've been exposed, according to Apple and Google.

The companies said the alerts to smartphone users are built on their privacy-optimized Exposure Notification framework.

which they claim doesn't share location data from a specific smartphone with the government.

Instead, it relies on random Bluetooth identifiers that don't record anything regarding your identity.