This technology will work by alerting people if they have recently come into contact with others found to be infected with coronavirus.
The two companies believe their approach - designed to keep users, whose participation would be voluntary, anonymous - addresses privacy concerns.
Their contact-tracing method would work by using a smartphone's Bluetooth signals to determine to whom the owner had recently been in proximity for long enough to have established contagion a risk.
If one of those people later tested positive for the Covid-19 virus, a warning would be sent to the original handset owner.
No GPS location data or personal information would be recorded.
"Privacy, transparency and consent are of utmost importance in this effort and we look forward to building this functionality in consultation with interested stakeholders," Apple and Google said in a joint statement.
"We will openly publish information about our work for others to analyse."
President Trump said his administration needed time to consider the development.
"It's very interesting, but a lot of people worry about it in terms of a person's freedom," he said during a White House press conference.
"We're going to take... a very strong look at it, and we'll let you know pretty soon."
The facility would be delivered via a future system software update. But the companies have yet to say when this would occur.
"This is a more robust solution," they say, suggesting there would be wider adoption if users did not have to download additional software for themselves.
It also provides the companies with the ability to easily disable tracing on a regional basis when the pandemic ends.
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The two companies believe their approach - designed to keep users, whose participation would be voluntary, anonymous - addresses privacy concerns.
Their contact-tracing method would work by using a smartphone's Bluetooth signals to determine to whom the owner had recently been in proximity for long enough to have established contagion a risk.
If one of those people later tested positive for the Covid-19 virus, a warning would be sent to the original handset owner.
No GPS location data or personal information would be recorded.
"Privacy, transparency and consent are of utmost importance in this effort and we look forward to building this functionality in consultation with interested stakeholders," Apple and Google said in a joint statement.
"We will openly publish information about our work for others to analyse."
President Trump said his administration needed time to consider the development.
"It's very interesting, but a lot of people worry about it in terms of a person's freedom," he said during a White House press conference.
"We're going to take... a very strong look at it, and we'll let you know pretty soon."
The facility would be delivered via a future system software update. But the companies have yet to say when this would occur.
"This is a more robust solution," they say, suggesting there would be wider adoption if users did not have to download additional software for themselves.
It also provides the companies with the ability to easily disable tracing on a regional basis when the pandemic ends.
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