Contact Tracing

Google's exposure notification system --- designed to help deploy Covid contact-tracing apps --- contains a security flaw that allows third parties to see users' private personal and medical information, according to a putative class action.

In this Monday, Nov. 5, 2018, file photo, a woman walks past the logo for Google at the China International Import Expo in Shanghai. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan, FILE)

SAN FRANCISCO — Google’s exposure notification system — designed to help deploy Covid contact-tracing apps — contains a security flaw that allows third parties to see users’ private personal and medical information, according to a putative class action .

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