Don't show me this message again✕ Google’s coronavirus contact tracing framework, which alerts users if they have been near someone with COVID-19, has been making its data available to third-party apps. The software giant had been informed of the privacy issue since February, a report from The Markup alleges, but said that the issue was not a “severe enough” flaw. The contact-tracing framework is built into Android devices, but can communicate with iPhones. It works by monitoring the phone’s owner via Bluetooth, but the data should only be available to official apps of public health...