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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 ...

Apple and Google are moving ahead with the next stage of their contact tracing technology by integrating it more directly into their mobile operating systems, a step the companies say should help ...

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 ...

Posts from this topic will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. California rolled out a COVID-19 contact tracing app this week, and officials — including Apple CEO Tim Cook — ...

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 ...

We've been primed to believe that technology will save us. Every year, new gadgets, apps, and digital tchotchkes promise to ease the burdens of modern life. Now, with the coronavirus having killed ...

Blog posts represent the views of CFR fellows and staff and not those of CFR, which takes no institutional positions. Chinmayi Arun is a resident fellow of Yale Law School’s Information Society ...

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 ...

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 ...