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Google Joins With U.K. Researchers to Track Coronavirus Cases

  • Data is anonymized and aggregated, can’t track individuals
  • Effort is one of many to use mobile phone data to track virus
     

Photographer: Krisztian Bocsi/Bloomberg

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Google is working with researchers in Europe to track the spread of the coronavirus using troves of location data gathered from smartphones.