Apple Inc. and Alphabet Inc.'s Google must ensure the public health apps in their digital contact-tracing system have adequate privacy protections or risk facing lawsuits, attorneys said.
The companies must make clear how they’ll decide which public health agencies can participate in the program and which data the authorities will be allowed to collect, said Ashkan Soltani, who served as the Federal Trade Commission’s chief technologist former chief technologist during the Obama administration.
The companies Friday released updated privacy protections for their plan, including encrypting Bluetooth metadata. They said the first phase of the program will start in mid-May when ...
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