{"id":22771,"date":"2020-03-17T17:50:54","date_gmt":"2020-03-18T00:50:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=22771"},"modified":"2020-03-17T17:50:54","modified_gmt":"2020-03-18T00:50:54","slug":"officials-tech-in-talks-on-using-location-data-to-track-virus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=22771","title":{"rendered":"Officials, tech in talks on using location data to track virus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The federal government is in talks with Facebook, Google and other tech companies about ways to use smartphone location data to tackle the coronavirus,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/click1.email.thehill.com\/gcwnsjwqmccdfjfcdkrmmdnnmwdpcwchhtmqjlpnytlww_jsnbvvjrjwbvfttffvfr.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=http:\/\/click1.email.thehill.com\/gcwnsjwqmccdfjfcdkrmmdnnmwdpcwchhtmqjlpnytlww_jsnbvvjrjwbvfttffvfr.html&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1584578677992000&amp;usg=AFQjCNEbrS1a-00GoTJkjVY9-F_BMsZyNQ\">The Washington Post reported<\/a>\u00a0Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Washington is reportedly interested in using the data to better understand how the virus spreads and to see whether people are practicing social distancing.<\/p>\n<p>A new task force made up of tech and other industry executives presented ideas for the use of the location data at a White House meeting Sunday, the Post reported. Presenters included officials from Harvard University and representatives from top tech groups and Silicon Valley firms.<\/p>\n<p>The White House&#8217;s Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) did not immediately respond to The Hill&#8217;s request for comment.<\/p>\n<p>An unnamed OSTP official told The Washington Post that they were &#8220;encouraged by American technology companies looking to leverage, aggregate, anonymized data to glean key insights for COVID-19 modeling efforts.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The meeting came on the heels of a summit led by U.S. Chief Technology Officer Michael Kratsios\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/click1.email.thehill.com\/dttszlgkjttfblbtfrcjjfssjgfwtgtnnmjkldwspmdgt_jsnbvvjrjwbvfttffvfr.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=http:\/\/click1.email.thehill.com\/dttszlgkjttfblbtfrcjjfssjgfwtgtnnmjkldwspmdgt_jsnbvvjrjwbvfttffvfr.html&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1584578677992000&amp;usg=AFQjCNGxQf4QY33tUknnJypDzV4oQ6VH9g\">last week<\/a>\u00a0with federal agencies and executives from tech giants such as Google, Facebook, Twitter, Microsoft and Amazon to hash out how Silicon Valley can help fight the spread of coronavirus.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The federal government is in talks&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22771","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health","category-science-tech"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22771","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22771"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22771\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22772,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22771\/revisions\/22772"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22771"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22771"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22771"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}