Used effectively, contact tracing slows the spread of disease and saves lives. In the past, contact tracing was done through health departments contacting people, but the rapid spread of COVID-19 led ...

Something that Google and other giant tech companies pushed heavily during the COVID-19 pandemic was an application that could attract contacts to help warn those who may have been exposed to the ...

A COVID-19 patient's iPhone receives its daily contract tracing message from the city of New York on November 19, 2020, in Brooklyn, New York. (Photo by Andrew Lichtenstein/Corbis via Getty Images) ...

While contact tracing can be performed manually, there are a number of worker-safety apps available that will save you time and money. Chances are very high that your working situation has changed in ...

To ensure that contact tracing apps protect users’ security, privacy and civil liberties, the Department of Homeland Security’s Science and Technology Directorate has tapped a startup to develop app ...

The Homeland Security Department selected a California-based startup to create and refine a means for gauging the security and privacy risks posed by digital COVID-19 contact tracing apps. As the ...

(TNS) — The digital contact tracing effort in Virginia is 2 million phones strong. Roughly a quarter of the adult population has downloaded the state’s COVIDWISE app or opted in on their iPhones to ...

The COVID-19 pandemic led to a rapid response to try to contain the virus' global spread. However, whenever speed is a factor, security and privacy often fall by the wayside. This is especially true ...

The automated contact-tracing system deployed by Google and Apple that was aimed at curbing the spread of COVID-19 has been, in no uncertain terms, a complete failure. The basic system’s effectiveness ...

While contact tracing can be performed manually, there are a number of worker-safety apps available that will save you time and money. Chances are very high that your working situation has changed in ...