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COVID-19 contact tracing app based on Apple-Google API launches in England and Wales

Thursday, September 24, 2020 9:20 am8 Comments

England and Wales launched a COVID-19 contact tracing app on Thursday, allowing users to trace contacts, check the local level of risk and…

UK makes U-turn; to use Apple-Google contract-tracing API

Thursday, June 18, 2020 9:21 am2 Comments

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…

France’s centralized contact-tracing app approved by lawmakers, to launch this weekend

Wednesday, May 27, 2020 5:00 pmWednesday, May 27, 2020No Comments

In France, the government’s contact-tracing app project was approved by the lower house of parliament on Wednesday, paving the way for a weekend launch…

UK’s NHS COVID-19 contact-tracing app is fatally flawed and likely illegal

Tuesday, May 5, 2020 3:26 pmThursday, May 7, 20203 Comments

The United Kingdom’s NHS COVID-19 contact-tracing app is fatally flawed and likely illegal. “Britain is sleepwalking into another coronavirus disaster…

France accuses Apple of undermining the country’s ‘StopCovid’ app

Tuesday, May 5, 2020 8:48 amTuesday, May 5, 20203 Comments

France accused Apple of undermining its effort by refusing to help make its iPhones work with the government’s planned “StopCovid” contact-tracing app …

Apple, Google ban use of location tracking in contact tracing apps

Monday, May 4, 2020 3:57 pmThursday, July 23, 20201 Comment

Apple and Alphabet Inc’s Google on Monday said they would ban the use of location tracking in apps that use a new contact tracing system on which the two firms

France continues to insist on centralized COVID-19 contact tracing while Apple refuses to budge

Monday, May 4, 2020 12:05 pm3 Comments

The government of France continues to insist on centralized COVID-19 contact tracing while Apple refuses to budge. France’s state-supported “StopCOVID” app…

Britain’s NHS rejects Apple-Google COVID-19 contact-tracing scheme

Monday, April 27, 2020 1:46 pmTuesday, April 28, 20208 Comments

Britain’s NHS has rejected the Apple-Google COVID-19 contact-tracing scheme. The UK’s coronavirus contact-tracing app is set to use a different model…

Apple and Google look to rebrand ‘contact tracing’ as ‘exposure notification’

Monday, April 27, 2020 9:20 amMonday, April 27, 202011 Comments

Apple and Google, working together on a COVID-19 contact tracing system are now rebranding their tools as “exposure notification.”

Germany dumps centralized COVID-19 contact tracing plan, backs Apple – Google approach

Monday, April 27, 2020 8:51 am10 Comments

Germany changed course on Sunday over which type of smartphone technology it wanted to use to attempt a COVID-19 contact tracing architecture, ditching…

Privacy: Apple won’t support invasive French, German contact tracing

Friday, April 24, 2020 12:23 pmFriday, April 24, 20206 Comments

A standoff over contact tracing privacy between Germany and France, the two largest nations in the European Union, and Silicon Valley escalated…

U.S. Senator demands Tim Cook and Sundar Pichai be personally accountable for coronavirus contact tracing privacy

Wednesday, April 22, 2020 9:19 amWednesday, April 22, 202058 Comments

A U.S. Senator is calling for Apple CEO Tim Cook and Alphabet Inc. CEO Sundar Pichai to be held personally accountable for any contact tracing privacy …

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