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India is repurposing its COVID-19 contact tracing app and vaccination website
India is repurposing its COVID-19 contact-tracing app and vaccination website to address other health concerns in the South Asian country. A senior official said Sunday that the Indian government is…
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How Jamaica failed to handle its JamCOVID scandal
Amber Group claimed it faced “cyberattacks, hacking and mischievous players.” In reality, the app was just not that secure.
California’s CA Notify app to offer statewide exposure notification using Apple and Google’s framework
The state of California has now expanded access of its CA Notify app to all in the state, after originally deploying the app in a pilot program at UC Berkeley…
Australia’s spy agencies caught collecting COVID-19 app data
Australia’s intelligence agencies have been caught “incidentally” collecting data from the country’s COVIDSafe contact-tracing app during the first six months of its launch, a government watchdog has found. The report,…
France rebrands contact-tracing app in an effort to boost downloads
Don’t call it StopCovid anymore. France’s contact-tracing app has been updated and is now called TousAntiCovid, which means “everyone against Covid”. The French government is trying to pivot so that…
Apple launches COVID-19 ‘Exposure Notification Express’ with iOS 13.7 — Android to follow later this month
Apple and Google are continuing to make good on their planned roll-out of exposure notification technology for helping with COVID-19 contact-tracing efforts. The two partners are introducing new tools that…
UK reported to be ditching coronavirus contacts tracing in favor of ‘risk rating’ app
What’s going on with the U.K.’s coronavirus contacts-tracing app? Reports in the national press today suggest a launch of the much-delayed software will happen this month but also that the…
Beyond the role software can play in helping enable better data sharing and contact tracing, there are many other problems in which software can play a critical role in resolving.
French contact-tracing app StopCovid has been activated 1.8 million times but only sent 14 notifications
France released StopCovid three weeks ago. The government is holding a press conference today to give an update on the app. In particular, this conference is a good opportunity to…
Join us June 17 for a live discussion on COVID-19 contact tracing and safe reopening strategies
Contact tracing is a practice almost as old as epidemiology itself, but today’s technology means the way that we go about tracking the spread of a contagious illness within and…
EU states agree a tech spec for national coronavirus apps to work across borders
European Union countries and the Commission have agreed on a technical framework to enable regional coronavirus contacts tracing apps to work across national borders. A number of European countries have…
Demonstrating 15 contact tracing and other tools built to mitigate the impact of COVID-19
With the goal of helping the public, and state and local governments, better understand the privacy and security features of leading applications, we’re sharing the information and demos we gathered…
After weeks of intense debate, the French government has released its contact-tracing app StopCovid. While it was supposed to be released on both iOS and Android six hours ago, it…
Join us June 3 for a contact-tracing and exposure-notification app development and deployment forum [Update: Event postponed]
Update 6/2/20: We’ve decided to postpone tomorrow’s COVID-19 CT/EN forum to June 17th. In light of the very important conversations that need to happen around justice, police brutality and race in…
Following a debate in the National Assembly, the lower house of the French parliament, deputies have voted in favor of the release of contact-tracing app StopCovid and the decree related…
France’s data protection watchdog reviews contact-tracing app StopCovid
France’s data protection watchdog CNIL has released its second review of StopCovid, the contact-tracing app backed by the French government. The CNIL says there’s no major issue with the technical…
COVID-19 exposure notification settings begin to go live for iOS users with new update
Apple has released iOS 13.5, which includes support for the Exposure Notification API that it co-created with Google to support public health authorities in their contact-tracing efforts to combat COVID-19.…
Apple and Google launch exposure notification API, enabling public health authorities to release apps
Apple and Google today made available the first public version of their exposure notification API, which was originally debuted as a joint contact-tracing software tool. The partners later renamed it…
French research institute Inria has released a small portion of the source code that is going to power France’s contact-tracing app, StopCovid. It is available on several GitLab repositories under…
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A passwordless server run by spyware maker NSO sparks contact-tracing privacy concerns
As countries work to reopen after weeks of lockdown, contact-tracing apps help to understand the spread of the deadly coronavirus strain, COVID-19. While most governments lean toward privacy-focused apps that use Bluetooth signals to create an anonymous profile of a person’s whereabouts, others, like Israel, use location and cell phone data to track the spread…
Apple and Google release sample code, UI and detailed policies for COVID-19 exposure-notification apps
Apple and Google are providing additional resources for developers working with the first version of their Exposure Notification API, the development tools the companies have created and are working on…
This Week in Apps: Zoom gets busted, TikTok’s new record, contact tracing API launches
This week we continue to look at how the coronavirus outbreak is impacting the world of apps, plus the use of live-streaming apps as fundraising tools and more.
Earlier today at the National Assembly, French Prime Minister Édouard Philippe gave a lengthy speech about post-lockdown measures in France ahead of a debate with deputies. The government originally planned…
Hundreds of French academics sign letter asking for safeguards on contact tracing
A group of 471 French cryptography and security researchers has signed a letter to raise awareness about the potential risks of a contact-tracing app. A debate in the French parliament…
Germany ditches centralized approach to app for COVID-19 contacts tracing
Germany has U-turned on building a centralized COVID-19 contacts tracing app — and will instead adopt a decentralized architecture, Reuters reported Sunday, citing a joint statement by chancellery minister Helge…
EU privacy body urges anonymization of location data for COVID-19 tracking
The European Data Protection Board (EDPB) has published guidance for the use of location data and contacts tracing tools intended to mitigate the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic. Europe’s data…
Hundreds of academics back privacy-friendly coronavirus contact tracing apps
Hundreds of academics across the world have welcomed efforts to introduce privacy-friendly contact tracing systems to help understand the spread of coronavirus. A letter, signed by nearly 300 academics and…
One of the best tools we have to slow the spread of the coronavirus is, as you have no doubt heard by now, contact tracing. But what exactly is contact…
EU lawmakers set out guidance for coronavirus contacts tracing apps
The European Commission has published detailed guidance with Member States on developing coronavirus contacts tracing and warning apps. The toolbox, which has been developed by the e-Health Network with the…
Electrical worker safety startup launches a COVID-19 workplace distance and contact tracker
A startup that created a dedicated gadget to help ensure the safety of electrical industry workers has turned their talents to addressing the need for similar workplace protections in the…
