Google and Apple detail privacy measures ahead of coronavirus tracking tests

Posted on 24/04/2020 by Engadget RSS Feed

Apple and Google have detailed the latest privacy protections for their ambitious COVID-19 tracking collaboration via a series of technical documents on their cryptography, API and Bluetooth specifications.Namely, Bluetooth metadata — sometimes conta...

ACLU outlines privacy concerns for contact tracing tech

Posted on 16/04/2020 by Engadget RSS Feed

As Google and Apple prepare to team up on surveillance tech to help track the spread of Covid-19, privacy watchdogs at the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) are urging the government and tech companies to take a tougher stance on privacy. The ACL...

The importance of Apple and Google’s rare collaboration on contact tracing

Posted on 13/04/2020 by Engadget RSS Feed

Go back to the dawn of 2020 and the notion of everyone downloading an app to track our encounters with other people would have been worrying if not absurd. Today, with cases of COVID-19 ballooning in the US, it’s becoming increasingly probable that t...

Apple shares more details of how COVID-19 contact tracing will work

Posted on 12/04/2020 by Engadget RSS Feed

Apple and Google shared a fair amount about their COVID-19 contact tracing plans with their joint announcement, but they still left some gaps. However, Apple has been willing to fill in a few of the blanks in a follow-up with The Verge. The company i...

Apple, Google reportedly team with UK’s NHS on COVID-19 tracing app

Posted on 12/04/2020 by Engadget RSS Feed

Apple and Google have said they’re working together on COVID-19 contact tracing, and that might just include collaboration with specific healthcare providers. The Times sources claim the two tech companies are working with the UK’s National Health Se...

Apple and Google are collaborating on COVID-19 contact tracing

Posted on 10/04/2020 by Engadget RSS Feed

With the COVID-19 crisis affecting almost every facet of society, Apple and Google announced today they’re partnering to work on Bluetooth technology that will allow governments and health agencies to more easily conduct contact tracing. The companie...

MIT is working on a way to track COVID-19 while protecting privacy

Posted on 09/04/2020 by Engadget RSS Feed

Many countries and researchers are promoting the use of contact tracing apps to help limit the spread of COVID-19 and aid in the eventual recovery, but they may require slow manual tracing or a sacrifice in privacy (say, warning when a patient leaves...

France is developing an app to track the spread of COVID-19

Posted on 08/04/2020 by Engadget RSS Feed

France is joining those countries betting that technology will help track and contain COVID-19. It’s developing a StopCovid contact tracing mobile app that will use Bluetooth to detect transmission chains for the coronavirus and help limit the spread...

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