It seems that the cabinet's app plans for market leaders Apple and Google immediately a new one business plan has delivered. Minister Hugo de Jonge (Public Health) announced at a press conference that the cabinet wants to deploy two mobile apps that should help control the further spread of the corona virus.

Apple and Google are partnering to detect Covid-19 infections. With their technology, Google and Apple want contact tracking optimize. This is a technique in which you check with whom someone who is infected with the coronavirus has all come into contact. Both companies will jointly develop technology to detect the spread of the corona virus via smartphones. 

Apps are used in several countries to monitor the corona virus. This is done both on the basis of residents' mobile location data and by monitoring user symptoms. Your phone will register who you came into contact with via Bluetooth signals. If someone later appears to be infected, you will be notified. It is very exceptional that the two technology giants join forces. Together, Google and Apple systems control 99% of all smartphones in the world. 

"It has never been such an important time to work together to solve one of the most pressing problems in the world," say the companies. 

no GPS data

A tracking app can be developed in a privacy-friendly way, but details about how the apps work and are structured are still lacking at the moment. Via Bluetooth signals your phone will save which other people you have been in contact with.

If you then test positive for the coronavirus, all stored persons will be notified. The data is stored encrypted. You can voluntarily arm and disarm the system. Apple and Google also say that no GPS data will be used.

Health experts say that again contact tracking will remain very important as quarantine measures relax. In addition to detecting the virus, it remains important to continue testing whether people are actually infected.

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