England and Wales launched a COVID-19 contact tracing app on Thursday, allowing users to trace contacts, check the local level of risk and…
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UK makes U-turn; to use Apple-Google contract-tracing API
In a major U-turn, the UK is ditching the way its COVID-19 contact-tracing app works and shifting to a model based on technology provided by Apple…
UK’s NHS COVID-19 contact-tracing app is fatally flawed and likely illegal
The United Kingdom’s NHS COVID-19 contact-tracing app is fatally flawed and likely illegal. “Britain is sleepwalking into another coronavirus disaster…
Privacy: Apple won’t support invasive French, German contact tracing
A standoff over contact tracing privacy between Germany and France, the two largest nations in the European Union, and Silicon Valley escalated…
ACLU has concerns with Apple-Google’s COVID-19 contact-tracing plan
A well-designed, widely-used COVID-19 contact-tracing tool could offer public health benefit, the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) says, but…
UK’s NHS in standoff with Apple and Google over coronavirus tracing
The NHS is in a standoff with Apple and Google after the two tech firms refused to support the UK’s plans to build an app that alerts users when they…
President Trump: Some have ‘very big constitutional problems’ with Apple-Google COVID-19 contact-tracing tech
Last week, Apple and Google jointly announced a partnership to create a COVID-19 contact-tracing system that works with both iOS and Android…
What’s wrong with the Apple-Google COVID-19 contact tracing scheme
There have recently been several proposals for pseudonymous COVID-19 contact tracing, including from Apple and Google. The UK’s National Health Service (NHS)…
UK NHS working with Apple-Google on COVID-19 contract tracing app
In the UK, senior sources say NHSX, the NHS’ technology arm, has been working at “breakneck speed” on a COVID-19 contract tracing app with Google and Apple…
iPads could replace UK’s NHS written patient monitoring charts
Handwritten medical observation charts could become a thing of the past in UK hospitals…
UK doctors told by government to prescribe iPhone apps to patients
Andrew Lansley, the UK Health Secretary, has compiled a list of nearly 500 apps…
