Users’ COVID-19 data safe, Apple tells US Senators

San Francisco: Apple has responded to a group of US Senators including Kamala Harris who raised concerned about data privacy policies of the company’s COVID-19 screening website and app.

US Senators Bob Menendez, Harris, Cory Booker and Richard Blumenthal sent a letter to Apple CEO Tim Cook last week, expressing concern over how confidential health data is handled in Apple’s coronavirus tools.

Timothy Powderly, Apple’s senior director of government affairs, said in a reply that the tech giant doesn’t collect any information other than non-personally identifiable app usage and crash data.