How Google, Apple will phase out Covid-19 tracking tool

Google and Apple, the two biggest names in the tech world joined hands to introduce a highly accurate ‘contact tracing’ (later changed to ‘exposure notification’) tool. While this might have been the need of the hour to counter the spread of coronavirus, the tracking capability of the app has been one of the most frequently mentioned concerns on the forum of these tech companies.

Under a document published by Apple, the company has explained how they will roll back the tracking once the pandemic is taken under control. The company claims that “Google and Apple can disable the exposure notification system on a regional basis when it is no longer needed.”