苹果与谷歌联手研发新冠病毒手机接触追踪系统

　　苹果公司和谷歌公司正在合作开发一个新冠病毒接触追踪系统，该系统可让iPhone和安卓智能手机用于监测新冠病毒的扩散情况，以此帮助政府和卫生机构控制新冠肺炎疫情在全球范围内的传播。

　　Tech giants Apple and Google are teaming up to create a system that would let smartphone users know when they've come into contact with someone who has COVID-19.

　　科技巨头苹果公司和谷歌公司将联手打造一个系统，让智能手机用户知道他们何时与新冠病毒感染者有过接触。

　　The technology would rely on the Bluetooth signals that smartphones can both send out and receive. If a person tests positive for COVID-19, they could notify public health authorities through an app. Those public health apps would then alert anyone whose smartphones had come near the infected person's phone in the prior 14 days.

　　这项技术将依赖于智能手机发送和接收的蓝牙信号。如果一名患者的新冠病毒检测呈阳性，他们可以通过一款应用程序通知公共卫生管理部门。这些公共卫生应用程序将向所有过去14天内其智能手机曾靠近患者手机的人发出警报。

　　The technology could be used on both Google Android phones and Apple iPhones.

　　这项技术可以在谷歌安卓手机和苹果iphone手机上使用。

　　The companies insist that they will preserve smartphone users' privacy. Smartphone users must opt in to use it. The software will not collect data on users' physical locations or their personally identifiable information. People who test positive would remain anonymous, both to the people who came in contact with them and to Apple and Google.

　　两家公司坚称，他们将保护智能手机用户的隐私。智能手机用户必须自主选择才能使用这一功能。该软件不会收集用户的实际位置数据或个人身份信息。新冠病毒检测呈阳性的人将对接触者以及苹果公司和谷歌公司保持匿名。

　　anonymous[əˈnɒnɪməs]：adj.匿名的，无名的

　　"Privacy, transparency, and consent are of utmost importance in this effort," the companies said in a joint statement.

　　两家公司在一份联合声明中称：“隐私、透明度和用户许可在这一过程中至关重要。”

　　The American Civil Liberties Union has warned that using cellphone data to address the pandemic carries risks of "invasions of privacy, abuse, and stigmatization."

　　美国公民自由联盟警告称，利用手机数据来应对疫情可能会带来“侵犯隐私、滥用信息和污名化”的风险。