coronavirus app
Britain's delayed virus app launched in England and Wales, after switching to Google-Apple API
The app uses Bluetooth to alert users if they spend 15 minutes or more within two metres of a user who subsequently tests COVID-19 positive.
No app, no problem: US users can enable Apple-Google virus tracing tech incorporated into phones
The second phase of their “exposure notification” system automatically alerts people if they might have been exposed to the coronavirus.
Reopening businesses encouraged to use Aarogya Setu to check health status of staff, other users
The Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology says only names and health status of consenting users will be shared with employers.
Setting a controversial example, Israeli Parliament permits phone tracking to monitor coronavirus spread
The law grants internal security agency Shin Bet permission to track cell phones for a three-week period on a case-by-case basis.
Governments, companies should not use COVID apps to find out users' contacts, location: UN body official
United Nations Internet Governance Forum (IGF) Secretariat Head Chengetai Masango said privacy should be paramount.
After dissing Google-Apple COVID app model, UK now embraces it
Earlier, the UK government had said the privacy controls that the app developed by the tech companies was unsuitable and ineffective.
Germans among most privacy conscious, government develops COVID app with public feedback
In Germany, a person’s right to their own data even after death is rooted in the Constitution.
Privacy violation not justified anymore as case count drops, Norways says, ends use of COVID app
Norway currently has between 50 and 100 confirmed cases of COVID-19.
Stop using state spy agency to track phones for coronavirus tracing: Israel parliamentary committee
The government had controversially approved Shin Bet’s use of surveillance for the Covid-19 illness as an emergency measure in mid-March.
In the next James Bond film, 007 should use COVID-19 app data; it works better than any spy tool
Most COVID apps access data from mobile devices such as contacts, photos, media, files, location data, camera and microphone.