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 ...

(TNS) — The digital contact tracing effort in Virginia is 2 million phones strong. Roughly a quarter of the adult population has downloaded the state’s COVIDWISE app or opted in on their iPhones to ...

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 ...

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 ...

Back in March 2020, when contact-tracing apps were first being frantically built, they seemed to me like a mirage -- a fantasy embraced by the smartphone-toting, jet-setting class who wanted to ...

A trial of the app-based technology will be carried out on the Isle of Wight before a full roll-out nationwide. Sign up for the top news stories every day to keep you informed with what's going on in ...

Early in the pandemic, the COVIDSafe app was designed as a tool to improve contact tracing. And a multimedia campaign promoted it as helping to find more COVID contacts faster. Now, almost two years ...

The spread of COVID-19 is tough to trace and even tougher to predict, but researchers at Pittsburgh’s Carnegie Mellon University created an early warning system to help protect you from the virus ...

The automated contact-tracing system deployed by Google and Apple that was aimed at curbing the spread of COVID-19 has been, in no uncertain terms, a complete failure. The basic system’s effectiveness ...

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 ...