The new contact tracing app for England and Wales, on September 24, 2020. Correspondent On Oct. 1, New York state released an app that can notify you if you’ve come into contact with a person who has ...

An Oahu-based nonprofit with the help of a Maui surgeon has been developing an app to be used as an anonymous, voluntary self-reporting tool for residents and visitors during the pandemic. The Planned ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Government-backed research has found Australia's nationwide contract tracing app unhelpful and inefficient for the country's COVID-19 pandemic response. A study funded by Australia's National Health ...