It’s been nearly a year since North Carolina and dozens of other states introduced contact-tracing apps to their arsenal of tools to fight the spread of COVID-19. North Carolina’s app, SlowCOVIDNC, is ...

Covid-19 has turned our lives upside down. But it has also been a catalyst for plenty of new technology, and it made apps even more popular than they were pre-pandemic. Among the most controversial ...

On August 9, 2022, Australia’s COVIDSafe app was officially decommissioned, and all its features removed. People were encouraged to uninstall the app. Reports of its closure have made international ...

A COVID-19 patient's iPhone receives its daily contract tracing message from the city of New York on November 19, 2020, in Brooklyn, New York. (Photo by Andrew Lichtenstein/Corbis via Getty Images) ...

A team of experts at the Pandemic Sciences Institute at the University of Oxford and Department of Statistics at the University of Warwick estimate the NHS COVID-19 app prevented around 1 million ...

The MI COVID Alert app is supposed to warn you if you’ve been near an infected person. My phone has been suspiciously silent. Credit: Lee DeVito About a year ago, Michigan got a new weapon in its ...

During the pandemic, contact tracing apps kept Americans informed of potential exposure risk with the goal of reducing infections. But did apps like this help reduce the spread of COVID and how might ...

Android users in Massachusetts may automatically see a new state COVID-19 exposure notification app installed on their phone, according to a number of reports surfacing. Google told 9to5Google that it ...

A federal judge has tentatively approved a proposed settlement of a lawsuit accusing Google of exposing sensitive information of Android users who downloaded a COVID-19 contact tracing app. The deal ...

Florian Vogt receives a fellowship from the Australian Partnership for Preparedness Research on Infection Disease Emergencies (APPRISE) Centre of Research Excellence (CRE), funded by the National ...

Hundreds of third-party apps in Android devices were given access to sensitive data logged by contact-tracing apps built on Google and Apple's API, according to security researchers. AppCensus, a ...

We’ve encountered many of these same hurdles at PwC and while we’ve recently made the decision to delay office reopenings until November 2021 at a minimum, the technology we have in place gives us the ...