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This report comes as news breaks that the UK has decided not to use Apple and Google's contact-tracing tech as originally planned.
The new data will be available in the university's COVIDcast map, and on Facebook's Data for Good.
Governments are finding technology-based tracking is helping in slowing the spread of the coronavirus, but when does it cross the line into problematic surveillance?
The two tech giants' unprecedented partnership looks to engage as many users in disease-tracing and prevention efforts as possible while tearing down the data silos of their respective smartphone platforms.
The anonymized, aggregated GPS data is collected from mobile devices that have opted into location-tracking services.
First announced by President Trump on Friday as a nationwide resource, the testing-referral service already seems to have reached its capacity among California's Santa Clara and San Mateo counties.
Elizabeth Warren (D-MA), Richard Blumenthal (D-CT) and Dr. Bill Cassidy (R-LA) sent a follow-up letter to Ascension CEO Joesph Impicciche regarding privacy concerns about Project Nightingale.
Data from an Aetna International survey also suggest that employers and convenient digital tools could play a role in connecting these potential patients to care.