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Apple, Google begin to spread pro-privacy, batt-friendly coronavirus contact-tracing API for phone apps

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Re: Have you looked before complaining?

If it's a standardised API why only allow one app per region? All apps should be compatible. Moving from one region to another should make no difference to functionality. Each app should beacon a unique 'infected database lookup url' that any other app receiving contact indications from, should be able to interrogate for infected contacts. Moving between the UK, scotland, france, germany should all work seamlessly, as the UK app will tell the French app go to https://nhs.gov/covidEndPoint to lookup potential contacts, and the french app will tell the UK app to go to https://wherever.fr/etc to do the same. Multiple apps in each country could do similar.

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