(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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...