Track-and-trace strategy to contain coronavirus uses citizens’ personal data

Police say the information helps first responders stay safe. But some privacy advocates and public health experts are raising concerns.

It does nothing for the people who are most at risk.

Undeniably, we need to use technology as part of disaster response, but the regulatory immaturity of the industry makes technology companies risky allies, even in the best of circumstances.

Technology cannot displace human contact tracers: creator of TraceTogether.gov.sg, the world’s first national Bluetooth contact tracing app

Around the world, a diverse and growing chorus is calling for the use of smartphone proximity technology to fight COVID-19. In particular, public health experts and others argue that smartphones

In Russia, coronavirus patients are facing a mass wave of doxxing attacks, meaning that their identities and private data are being made public on messaging apps and social media. Meduza found that...

Digital contact tracing, if built in a voluntary, privacy-protective way using Apple and Google’s new Bluetooth-based standards, may allow the public to play a role in containing the coronavirus...

Eager for insight on which patients might deteriorate, hospitals are cramming a validation process that often takes months or years into a couple weeks.

The app is being trialled on the Isle of Wight this week and was due to be rolled out nationally if successful.

Want to opt out of that part? No chance, says NHSX chief

An update to integrate the Google-Apple framework should fix the issue, MPs told

No matter how you feel about contact tracing, it’s been openly embraced by federal authorities around the world, from the UK, to Germany, to, well, you name it, as a way to curb the spread of the...

Documents left unsecured on Google Drive reveal the NHS could in the future ask people to post their health status to its Covid-19 contact tracing app

Here are four questions we need to ask ourselves

Silicon Valley companies have proposed automating the arduous task of identifying people potentially exposed to Covid-19. They're finding few takers.

Once deployed, the cellphone-based technology Apple and Google are developing could become entrenched and determine the path of future data practices.

The PM told Australians in April the contact tracing app was key to getting back to normal but just one person has been identified using its data

The free app was launched Friday and had been downloaded around 3.71 million times as of Tuesday morning.