Google Responds to Claims It Secretly Installed COVID-19 Tracking App on Users’ Phones
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Google Responds to Claims It Secretly Installed COVID-19 Tracking App on Users’ Phones

A number of Android phone users over the past weekend reported that a COVID-19 notifications system was automatically installed on their phones without warning or consent. Google, in a statement to several news outlets, did not confirm or deny whether the “automatically distributed” system was installed without users’ consent while noting that “COVID-19 Exposure Notifications…