On August 9, 2022, Australia’s COVIDSafe app was officially decommissioned, and all its features removed. People were encouraged to uninstall the app. Reports of its closure have made international ...

It's been over four months since the NHS COVID-19 contact-tracing app launched across the UK, and since then the health services have been short of updates on the performance of the technology, to say ...

(Reuters) - Alphabet Inc's Google said on Wednesday it has rolled out a fix for issues with some Android apps developed using the company's Exposure Notifications System that helps in COVID-19 contact ...

Back in March 2020, when contact-tracing apps were first being frantically built, they seemed to me like a mirage -- a fantasy embraced by the smartphone-toting, jet-setting class who wanted to ...

(TNS) — The digital contact tracing effort in Virginia is 2 million phones strong. Roughly a quarter of the adult population has downloaded the state’s COVIDWISE app or opted in on their iPhones to ...

Apple CEO Tim Cook and Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai have tweeted in support of the app: The app uses the contact tracing API that was added to iOS and Android back in May, and it requires an iPhone with ...

As the world scrambles to flatten the curve, contact-tracing apps have been positioned as a vital defense for suppressing the spread of coronavirus. Out of the more than 200 countries that have been ...

The idea behind digital contact tracing is that, when an individual tests positive for an infectious disease such as COVID-19, an app on their smartphone can send a notification to other smartphones ...

The COVID-19 pandemic led to a rapid response to try to contain the virus' global spread. However, whenever speed is a factor, security and privacy often fall by the wayside. This is especially true ...

(Reuters) - Apple Inc and Alphabet Inc's Google on Monday said they would ban the use of location tracking in apps that use a new contact tracing system the two are building to help slow the spread of ...

In 2016, I sat on the tarmac at the airport in Austin, Texas. While watching the movie Contagion, I started to think about the technological realities of a pandemic. I contemplated how we can use ...