{"id":23923,"date":"2020-04-21T15:40:59","date_gmt":"2020-04-21T22:40:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=23923"},"modified":"2020-04-21T15:40:59","modified_gmt":"2020-04-21T22:40:59","slug":"gop-senator-ramps-up-pressure-on-apple-google","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=23923","title":{"rendered":"GOP senator ramps up pressure on Apple, Google"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) sent letters to Apple and Google on Tuesday urging the tech giants to make their CEOs personally liable for data collected in their joint coronavirus contact-tracing project.<\/p>\n<p>The two tech giants announced earlier this month that they would be creating a voluntary contact-tracing network using Bluetooth Low Energy transmissions.<\/p>\n<p>The software would use the signals to track individuals that participants who have opted-in to the program have been in contact with, and then notify those people if they&#8217;ve come near someone who tests positive for COVID-19, the disease caused by the novel coronavirus.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Privacy alarm:\u00a0<\/em><\/strong>Critics have raised concerns about potential risks to privacy from the project.<\/p>\n<p>Apple and Google have included many checks for those concerns, but for Hawley those are not enough.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Hawley\u2019s message:\u00a0<\/em><\/strong>&#8220;If you seek to assure the public, make your stake in this project personal,&#8221; he wrote to Tim Cook and Sundar Pichai. &#8220;Make a commitment that you and other executives will be personally liable if you stop protecting privacy, such as by granting advertising companies access to the interface once the pandemic is over.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) sent letters&#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":[11,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23923","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","category-science-tech"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23923","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=23923"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23923\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23924,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23923\/revisions\/23924"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23923"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23923"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23923"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}