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North Dakota Governor Doug Burgum is defending a contact tracing app that’s come under fire by privacy groups for sharing user data to big tech companies. The same goes for the Fargo-based developer ...

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 ...

Different mobile applications are using Bluetooth and/or GPS technology to trace various users' locations (on a voluntary basis) to inform public health workers about transmission zones and contact ...

Since the COVID-19 pandemic first came to Los Angeles in the spring, the county Department of Public Health has hired nearly 2,600 people to do the manual work of contact tracing: asking people who ...

A COVID-19 patient's iPhone receives its daily contract tracing message from the city of New York on November 19, 2020, in Brooklyn, New York. (Photo by Andrew Lichtenstein/Corbis via Getty Images) ...

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The UK National Health Service's (NHS) official COVID-19 contact-tracing app has been launched across England and Wales following months of delays. Available from today on the Apple App Store and ...

Hundreds of third-party apps in Android devices were given access to sensitive data logged by contact-tracing apps built on Google and Apple's API, according to security researchers. AppCensus, a ...

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 ...

Beginning Thursday, Californians will have the option to receive smartphone notifications if they’ve been exposed to someone who has tested positive for the novel coronavirus. California on Monday ...