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This article was published on April 12, 2021An update to England and Wales’ contact-tracing app has been blocked by Apple and Google for violating their location data collection rules.When gyms, pub gardens, and non-essential shops reopened today, the COVID-19 app was supposed to have a new feature that would log every place that a user checked into. If they later tested positive, the app would inform other people who’d been to that venue.But this collection of location data is prohibited by Apple and Google, who developed the decentralized API model on which the app is based.&nbsp; The update has therefore been blocked from Google Play and the App Store.Subscribe to our newsletter now for a weekly recap of our favorite AI stories in your inbox.A spokeswoman for the UK’s Department of Health that the new feature had merely been “delayed” and that the app’s core functionality has not been impacted. But privacy advocates have slammed the location-tracking plan.The government had initially intended to develop a homegrown contact-tracing&nbsp;app, to Google and Apple’s more privacy-focused model last June.Walsh said it was vital that the app continued to use a decentralized approach that doesn’t constantly track people’s whereabouts:Despite the feature being delayed, the government is pushing ahead and lifting its lockdown restrictions. And thank God for that — I can’t wait for that first ice-cold pint.Greetings Humanoids! Did you know we have a newsletter all about AI? You can subscribe to it .Greetings Humanoids! Did you know we have a newsletter all about AI? You can subscribe to it right here.

This article was published on April 12, 2021An update to England and Wales’ contact-tracing app has been blocked by Apple and Google for violating their location data collection rules.When gyms, pub gardens, and non-essential shops reopened today, the COVID-19 app was supposed to have a new feature that would log every place that a user checked into. If they later tested positive, the app would inform other people who’d been to that venue.But this collection of location data is prohibited by Apple and Google, who developed the decentralized API model on which the app is based.&nbsp; The...

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