A version of this article first appeared on the website of the Public Interest Technology program at New America. During the COVID-19 pandemic, alongside social distancing and masks, governments and ...

California will launch a COVID-19 exposure-notification system Thursday that uses smartphones to track interactions with infected people. The state “has partnered with Google and Apple to launch a ...

The Massachusetts Department of Public Health (DPH) is facing a class-action lawsuit for allegedly using Google technology to covertly install tracking apps on over one million Android phones as part ...

In the age of cellphones and the internet, consumers often face a simple choice: convenience or privacy? Do we let Big Tech have access to our private communications and free email accounts because it ...

Los Angeles city and county are partnering with the Citizen mobile app to provide new methods for faster coronavirus contact tracing and notifications about possible exposure. LOS ANGELES (KABC) -- ...

Florian Vogt receives a fellowship from the Australian Partnership for Preparedness Research on Infection Disease Emergencies (APPRISE) Centre of Research Excellence (CRE), funded by the National ...

SEATTLE — As parts of the country look to reopen the economy, a new app by the University of Washington hopes to be a reliable way to track the virus and its future spread. The CovidSafe app is ...

The government is abandoning efforts to develop its own coronavirus contact-tracing app in order to focus on technology from Apple and Google. In a major U-turn on Thursday, the app developed by the ...

RIGA (Reuters) - Latvia aims to become one of the first countries to launch a smartphone app using a new toolkit created by U.S. tech giants Apple and Alphabet's Google to help trace coronavirus ...

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 ...