Apple, Google Start to Win Over Europe to Their Virus-Tracking Technology

European countries are embracing Apple and Google protocols as they build their own smartphone apps to help conduct contact tracing

The continent that helped lead a backlash against Silicon Valley’s appetite for personal data is increasingly aligning itself with technology built by Apple Inc. and Alphabet Inc.’s Google to blaze a path out of the coronavirus pandemic.

Countries across Europe, like others in the developed world, are building their own smartphone apps to help conduct contact tracing. The aim of the apps is to help public-health officials identify and test everyone who has spent time near an infected person, to better understand and contain...

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