Apple, Google Coronavirus Tech Won't Track Your Location. That Worries Some States.
Apple and Google are developing smartphone technology to help fight the coronavirus pandemic. But public health authorities in some states are chafing against the tech giants' rules.
When Vern Dosch heard that Apple and Google had teamed up to develop smartphone technology to help curb the spread of the coronavirus, he was excited.
Dosch leads North Dakota's contact tracing strategy. He believed the tech giants' move would amplify the state's efforts to identify people who may have been exposed to the virus — a critical step as states reopen for business.
In addition to to call people with COVID-19 to learn where they've been and who they've been with, North Dakota has built its own smartphone app for people to download. Dosch thought Google and Apple's system, which relies on the standard Bluetooth technology in most
