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
24 Sep 2020
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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
15 Sep 2020
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
24 Aug 2020
Linux Foundation starts new group to build pandemic-popping software
Decentralised contact-tracing apps from Ireland and Canada are first off the rank
21 Jul 2020
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
18 Jun 2020
Singapore already planning version 2.0 contact-tracing wearable
Contract awarded for 300,000 units and another tender has been issued
17 Jun 2020
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
16 Jun 2020
In Hancock's half-hour, Dido Harding offers hollow laughs: Cake distracts test-and-trace boss at UK COVID-19 briefing
CommentEx-TalkTalk CEO fails to convince public everything's going swimmingly
12 Jun 2020
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
09 Jun 2020
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
04 Jun 2020
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?
02 Jun 2020
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
27 May 2020
Contact-tracing app may become a permanent fixture in major Chinese city
Hangzhou wants a 'health and immunity firewall'
26 May 2020
Australians can demand visitors to their homes run contact-tracing app
As opposition MP criticises slow and incomplete source code release, saying 'Public health messaging shouldn't require citizens to follow GitHub forks'
13 May 2020
NHS contact-tracing app is best in the world, says VMware CEO... whose company helped build it
Virtzilla prepares to re-open some offices next week for staff who are willing to leave home
12 May 2020
India releases data-use protocols for its contact-tracing app... after five weeks and 100 million downloads
Cart, meet horse, and you can both worry about 180-day data retention
12 May 2020
Contact-tracing is basically CRM so we think we've got it sorted, says Salesforce
Coming real soon now as-a-service. Details on data collection and price? Coming soon, promise
05 May 2020
India makes contact-tracing app compulsory in viral hot zones despite most local phones not being smart
Tech minister says app is 'foolproof'! We imagine Black Hats probably don't agree. And some may have time on their hands at present
04 May 2020
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