NEW DELHI: Apple and Google will ban location tracking on apps that use their contact tracing application program interface (API), the companies told Reuters.
The companies had earlier said their API will only be available to public health authorities making contact tracing apps and that they will limit the number of apps to one per country.
The two had announced joint efforts to build the API to help governments speed up development of contact tracing apps that can be used to monitor covid-19 patients in their countries.
The first beta of the API went out to developers working with public health authorities this past week. According to the companies, the goal is to keep governments from using apps built on the API to log people’s