On August 9, 2022, Australia’s COVIDSafe app was officially decommissioned, and all its features removed. People were encouraged to uninstall the app. Reports of its closure have made international ...

Florian Vogt receives a fellowship from the Australian Partnership for Preparedness Research on Infection Disease Emergencies (APPRISE) Centre of Research Excellence (CRE), funded by the National ...

A team of experts at the Pandemic Sciences Institute at the University of Oxford and Department of Statistics at the University of Warwick estimate the NHS COVID-19 app prevented around 1 million ...

An online survey was carried out in the UK to investigate adoption and attitudes towards the NHS COVID-19 smartphone app. The statistical analysis shows adoption rates, attitudes towards and trust in ...

New research claims that Hong Kong’s covid-19 contact tracing app has a host of security problems that could expose sensitive user data. The city’s response: We don’t know what you guys are talking ...

PARIS (Reuters) - France's new COVID-19 contact-tracing app needs to be downloaded by at least 20% of the population to be effective but is far from reaching that level for now, the minister for ...

As a tool for controlling the spread of COVID-19, mobile applications for contact tracing are most effective when they are widely adopted and left on indefinitely. But adoption rates of such apps are ...

ST. LOUIS – A new contact tracing app already being used in St. Louis will soon allow you to be notified within minutes of being exposed to someone with COVID. Washington University developed it and ...

A Washington, D.C.-based nonprofit law firm, New Civil Liberties Alliance, filed a lawsuit against the Massachusetts Department of Public Health that claims the department's use of a COVID-19 contact ...