Apple and Google have begun testing their COVID-19 exposure notification API

Apple and Google’s joint effort to help public health authorities track the spread of COVID-19 will begin testing today, the companies said. The companies will deliver an initial version of their exposure notification API to a small number of developers working on apps for public health organizations and test it over the next several weeks. The API is expected to be released more broadly in mid-May.

The companies announced their rare collaboration earlier this month. The project, which users will be asked to opt into, will use Bluetooth to track potential exposures to confirmed cases of COVID-19. Smartphones will record instances in which they have been close to other phones for an extended period of time without recording location data....

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