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Google Wants To Use People-Tracking Software To Fight Covid-19, And It's Eerily Similar To China's Social Credit System

One of the worst things about this coronavirus crisis is the constant in-fighting between people of differing political views in America. It’s terrible because, if ever there were a time that we should come together and work with each other, it’s during this time of international disaster brought on by COVID-19.

By S.G. Cheah4 min read
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Apple and Google have teamed up to develop an app-based contact tracing system to track people who are infected with the virus. The owner of a smartphone would be notified if they came into contact with someone who later tested positive for COVID-19. From there they could self-isolate or get tested for the infection themselves.