Pinterest CEO Ben Silbermann is among the tech executives jumping into the coronavirus response by offering an app to track symptoms and the spread of the pandemic, but privacy issues remain.
In an email to CNBC, a Pinterest spokesperson said that it's critical for Americans to participate and that they need "as many people as possible to donate their data," adding that the app is completely independent from Pinterest and that people's data will not be sold to any company or used by Pinterest.
The Oliver Wyman Forum survey found that just 21% of survey respondents would want a positive result shared with an app that discloses where people are infected through anonymized or aggregated data, while 9% would share it with an app that discloses the names of people infected.Silbermann partnered closely with Feng Zhang, best known for pioneering the revolutionary gene-editing technology CRISPR.
"Since high school ... Zhang and I have been talking about the enormous value of connecting citizens to the global health and research community," Silbermann said in a press release. "When we saw how quickly COVID-19 was spreading, it felt like a critical moment to finally build that bridge between citizens and scientists that we've always wanted."
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