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.