Contact Tracing - Testing and COVID19 - Coronavirus

There's a deluge of apps that detect your covid-19 exposure, often with little transparency. Our Covid Tracing Tracker project will document them. (2020)

Apple and Google are continuing to make good on their planned roll-out of exposure notification technology for helping with COVID-19 contact-tracin... (2020)

Contact tracing is working in South Korea and Singapore. But it raises privacy issues. Our cellphones and smartphones have several means of logg... (2020)

Millions of Indian citizens are being forced to download the country’s tracking app—a line no other democracy has yet crossed in the fight against ... (2020)

As France awakens from lockdown on 11 May, the government will start testing “under real conditions” a prototype for its much-criticised StopCovid ... (2020)

Palantir, the data analytics company co-founded by Peter Thiel, is already an active tech player in the scrum for federal contracts, but it’s playi... (2020)

It’s becoming increasingly clear how we can get back outside and back to work—although not exactly back to normal. (2020)

There have recently been several proposals for pseudonymous contact tracing, including from Apple and Google. To both cryptographers and privacy ad... (2020)

A joint effort to enable the use of Bluetooth technology to help governments and health agencies reduce the spread of the virus. (2020)

Leading former federal health officials Andy Slavitt and Scott Gottlieb are leading a call for $46 billion for specific measures in a next coronavi... (2020)

Listen to this episode from Should This Exist? on Spotify. It’s one of the best weapons we have to contain a pandemic. But can it defe... (2020)

When acting Danish finance minister Morten Bødskov announced last week that Denmark would soon launch a digital “corona passport,” the news spread ... (2021)