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Yahoo!’s Japanese offshoot has signed a deal to share analysis of its users’ locations, to help the nation’s effort to detect coronavirus clusters. As announced on Monday by Japan’s Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare, the government has struck a deal with Yahoo! Japan to source “statistical information created by analyzing …

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    In other news

    Yahoo USA has signed a deal to track the whereabouts of its US user. The anonymized data refers to the subject only as, that loser in his mom's basement, which it locates precisely

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