Woolworths has announced it will be trialling a QR code contact tracing initiative, as well as using Rewards data where it can to reduce the spread of COVID-19. Voluntary to customers, the contract ...

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 ...

In a bid to build trust in its contact tracing app, NHSX, the digital wing of the NHS, has publicly released the app's source code. Anyone can head over to NHSX’s GitHub page and view the code for the ...

That was, in a nutshell, many Mexico City residents’ response upon learning via a Nov. 13 tweet of their local government’s new plan to better trace COVID-19 cases: asking people to scan QR codes on ...

The NHS has kept its promise to share the source code for the UK contact tracing app, placing both the code and documentation onto Github. This will allow security researchers to examine the code to ...

India said it will publicly release the source code of its contact-tracing app, Aarogya Setu, to the relief of privacy and security experts who have been advocating for this ever since the app ...

The global discussion surrounding contact tracing apps has long been about the pressing issue of privacy. When it comes to such sensitive information like one’s health condition, it’s not surprising ...

Ireland launched its contact-tracing app on July 7, and within a week it had 1.3 million downloads — roughly 37% of the country's adult population. NearForm, the company which built the app for ...

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 the ...

Lots of new app ideas are emerging to track Covid-19, but each has issues around privacy, location accuracy and how much appeal it will have to the public and to health officials. By Matt Richtel The ...

But with Covid-19, major obstacles stand in the way – both at the White House and across the country. Despite more than 7.5 million infections and over 211,000 US deaths, “there’s still no national ...