Apple and Google are building a coronavirus tracking system into iOS and Android

The Vergecast

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🗓️ 10 April 2020

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Nilay Patel talks with The Verge's Adi Robertson, Casey Newton, and Nicole Wetsman about Apple and Google announcing a system for tracking the spread of the new coronavirus, allowing users to share data through Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) transmissions and approved apps from health organizations. Links: Apple and Google are building a coronavirus tracking system into iOS and Android What is contact tracing? Why Bluetooth apps are bad at discovering new cases of COVID-19 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to an emergency episode of the Verge Cast.
0:07.7	I'm Nelai.
0:08.7	I'm joined by Adi Robertson.
0:10.1	Hi, Adi.
0:11.1	Nicole Wetsman.
0:12.1	Hello.
0:13.1	And Kase Newton.
0:14.1	Hi, Nelai.
0:15.1	So I've assembled this illustrious group of Verge reporters because Apple and Google
0:19.4	announced something pretty surprising today.
0:21.4	They are teaming up.
0:22.4	You don't usually hear about Apple and Google teaming up, but they are teaming up to build
0:27.5	a set of APIs and technologies into iOS and Android that use Bluetooth LE to allow for something
0:34.1	called contact tracing, which will eventually enable us to more accurately track the spread
0:39.5	of the coronavirus.
0:41.5	That's a lot.
0:42.5	That's a lot of new vocabulary words.
0:44.8	It's a lot of novel uses of technology.
0:47.6	And it is a big deal because certainly if you've been listening to the Verge Cast,
0:51.5	and probably anyone, you're aware that Apple and Google are the two dominant mobile phone
0:57.4	operating system vendors in this world.
0:59.9	So if they decide to do something together, the opportunity for it to be widespread and
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