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India uses controversial portal and API to add vaccination status info to Aarogya Setu contact-tracing app

Millions can’t use it, but it may be about to become a de facto travel permit

Singapore bolsters Bluetooth contact-tracing as new COVID wave sends students and workers home again

TraceTogether app becomes primary tracking tool and compulsory in many settings

Japan’s COVID-19 contact-tracing app hasn't warned users of encounters with carriers since September

Android edition just didn’t do the job and Health Ministry knew it. Now Japan is in its third and nastiest wave of infections

Singapore changes the rules and will now use COVID-19 contact-tracing app data in criminal cases

Privacy policy re-written, which is somewhat scary given Singapore has made trackers just-about-mandatory

Indian government labels itself ‘evasive’ over privacy details of national COVID-19 contact-tracing app

Smacks down Information Commission by pointing to policy and data revealing the app has probably helped quite a lot

England's COVID-tracking app finally goes live after 6 months of work – including backpedal on how to handle data

Just in time for the second wave and new movement restrictions

Singapore to test compulsory COVID-tracker usage as condition of entry to some venues

Wearable tracker now being distributed for those who don’t fancy smartphone surveillance

India's contact-tracing app grows an API to share health status info with businesses

Users who opt-in will share COVID encounter info with the boss, in the name of returning the economy to a more normal footing

Linux Foundation starts new group to build pandemic-popping software

Decentralised contact-tracing apps from Ireland and Canada are first off the rank

Bricks and mortar chemists take down Indian contact-tracing website

On grounds that it favoured online chemists in a nation that forbids online drug sales

Singapore already planning version 2.0 contact-tracing wearable

Contract awarded for 300,000 units and another tender has been issued

Australia's contact-tracing app still basically borked on iOS, says new bug report – and GAPPLE API version tested

On the upside, it's been used to trace contacts about 30 times and downloaded six million times

In Hancock's half-hour, Dido Harding offers hollow laughs: Cake distracts test-and-trace boss at UK COVID-19 briefing

Comment Ex-TalkTalk CEO fails to convince public everything's going swimmingly

Singapore to distribute wearable contact-tracing device and won't rule out making it compulsory

Because not everyone has a smartphone and Apple devices remain problematic

GSMA suggests mobile carriers bake contact-tracing into their own apps – if governments ask for it

Working group already probing Bluetooth performance on myriad devices to help developers

As the US maybe gets serious about coronavirus-tracking apps, Congress wakes up to the privacy risks

Just what will happen to all that tasty location and contact data?

India said its coronavirus contact-tracing app is perfect... adds bug bounty and open-sources it anyway

As the legalese changes to extend data retention period

Contact-tracing app may become a permanent fixture in major Chinese city

Hangzhou wants a 'health and immunity firewall'

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