There was an urgent need to augment the scale and rapidity of contact tracing to identify everyone who had been exposed to Covid-19. Twenty-first–century digital technology had the potential to ...

This is particularly true when data is combined with or correlated against other datasets ... meant to regulate digital contact tracing apps and protect people's privacy, ensuring any data ...

As the pandemic progresses, there’s been significant attention directed at new digital approaches to supplement traditional contact tracing, defined by the World Health Organization as “identifying, ...

Technology companies are offering a new tool to countries and states trying to reopen their economies amid the coronavirus pandemic: digital contact tracing applications. Touted as a way to track ...

In infectious disease outbreaks, digital contact tracing alone could reduce the number of cases, but not as much as manual contract tracing, new University of Otago-led research published in The ...

It had developed an open-source digital contact tracing system -- one of those smartphone ... and does not go to a centralised dataset in order to preserve individual privacy.

Several countries have effectively limited the spread of COVID-19 by using digital technology in unprecedented ways, implementing core public health techniques such as case detection, contact tracing, ...

We are particularly concerned that the normalization of digital contact tracing would be a double blow for communities in the United States and abroad that have suffered longstanding human rights ...

The new law, it said, “will specify that personal data collected through digital contact ... dataset was intended for,” said the opposition Progress Singapore Party in a statement. “Covid ...

That’s why the Center for American Progress, one of the leading left-leaning think tanks in Washington, DC, is releasing a list of recommendations for states to utilize digital contact tracing ...