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Google is releasing your anonymized location data to help health officials with coronavirus containment

Friday, April 3, 2020 by Piyush Suthar | Comments

Home News Tech Google is releasing your anonymized location data to help health officials with coronavirus containment

With coronavirus cases crossing the million mark, countries are taking strict actions to clamp down on people moving about, so as to help prevent the spread of the disease. To help health officials to understand how people are moving around, Google is releasing anonymized data from Maps for 131 countries to the public, researchers, and governments. These reports, called the COVID-19 Community Mobility Reports, will contain trends of movement in terms of visiting places such as groceries, pharmacies, and workplaces. The company says it’ll contain data from the past several weeks up to until the last 48 to 72 hours. Google said these…

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Authored by Piyush Suthar
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