Linux Foundation announces COVID-19 exposure notification application initiative (TechRepublic)

TechRepublic reports that the Linux Foundation has announced the Linux Foundation Public Health initiative (LFPH). Using projects based on the Google Apple Exposure Notification system, the initiative's goal according to LFPH general manager Dan Kohn is "building a global community of leading technology and consulting companies, public health authorities, epidemiologists, and other public health specialists, privacy and security experts, and individual developers." With this announcement is the launch of two open-source projects: COVID Shield and COVID Green.