Apple, Google weigh location tracking rules as EU seeks privacy-based virus apps
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BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Apps to help contain the spread of the novel coronavirus should not collect user location data, the European Commission said on Thursday, as Apple Inc and Google weighed whether to work with virus apps that use location tracking.The EU executive's recommendation came as part of a unified European approach for using technology to combat COVID-19 and after several EU countries rolled out a variety of apps, prompting criticism from data privacy activists.Doctors want to be..