Apple Sends Letter to Senators Confirming Privacy and Security of COVID-19 App

Apple last week sent a letter to a group of U.S. senators who had questioned the privacy and security of the COVID-19 app and website that Apple designed in partnership with the the CDC, the White House Coronavirus Task Force, and FEMA. In the letter [PDF], published on Friday and highlighted today by Bloomberg, Apple provided specific answers to each of the questions the senators had asked, and clarified that the app and website were built with privacy as a priority. Consistent with Apple's str...