Covid-19 has turned our lives upside down. But it has also been a catalyst for plenty of new technology, and it made apps even more popular than they were pre-pandemic. Among the most controversial ...

DE PERE, Wis. (WBAY) - The Unified School District of De Pere is using QR codes for COVID-19 contact tracing. The QR code program was created by district’s data specialist. Students use their ...

(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 idea behind digital contact tracing is that, when an individual tests positive for an infectious disease such as COVID-19, an app on their smartphone can send a notification to other smartphones ...

Matt Katz couldn’t be easier to find. He’s a journalist living in Philadelphia, and picks up the phone when strange numbers call. He’d given all his contact information to the company that tested him ...

Bitter enemies teamed up to build tools they hoped would help slow the virus’s spread. If we’ve learned anything from covid-19, it’s the extent to which our lives are enmeshed with those of the people ...

The New South Wales Minister for Customer Service Victor Dominello has lauded the state's QR code venue check-in system, prior to it becoming mandatory for hospitality businesses and hairdressers when ...

Back in March 2020, when contact-tracing apps were first being frantically built, they seemed to me like a mirage -- a fantasy embraced by the smartphone-toting, jet-setting class who wanted to ...

The following edited version is based on two reports written by Almond Li and Peter Lee in the Hong Kong Free Press (HKFP) on July 11, 2022. It is published on Global Voices under a content ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Christine Ro is a journalist covering science and development. The Covid-19 pandemic has been a vivid reminder that the internet ...

Privacy concerns have been raised after ministers in Singapore's government acknowledged that data collected by its widely used COVID-19 contact-tracing program may ...