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SAN FRANCISCO: Google is limiting how its trove of location data is used in the fight against the novel coronavirus as the company balances government demands with user privacy concerns.
In a statement on Tuesday, Google said it has not shared any “aggregate anonymised location data for this purpose as we are still assessing the best way to help”. The company also stressed that it has no plans to share or combine data with the industry.“We’re exploring ways that aggregated anonymised location information could help in the fight against Covid-19,” a Google spokesperson wrote in an email.
Civil liberties and privacy groups have criticized Google for broad data-collection activities and its practice of handing over information in response to law enforcement warrants. During a March 3 Senate hearing, an official from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said the agency was using Google location data for “travel patterns and for other means”.
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