The Massachusetts Department of Public Health (DPH) is facing a class-action lawsuit for allegedly using Google technology to covertly install tracking apps on over one million Android phones as part ...

“I understand that many people will be downloading the COVID19 app. However, if I am one of your ‘contacts’ and you intend on installing the app, ‘Healthy Together’-- ‘Trace Together’ -- or any ...

A version of this article first appeared on the website of the Public Interest Technology program at New America. During the COVID-19 pandemic, alongside social distancing and masks, governments and ...

Though for years, infectious disease experts have warned of the looming dangers of a global pandemic, the novel COVID-19 virus took common folk by surprise, debilitating the planet since early 2020.

The state Department of Public Health was accused of working with Google to “secretly” install COVID-19 contact tracing “spyware” onto more than 1 million Android smartphones. The New Civil Liberties ...

SEATTLE — As parts of the country look to reopen the economy, a new app by the University of Washington hopes to be a reliable way to track the virus and its future spread. The CovidSafe app is ...

As the world scrambles to flatten the curve, contact-tracing apps have been positioned as a vital defense for suppressing the spread of coronavirus. Out of the more than 200 countries that have been ...

It’s been nearly a year since North Carolina and dozens of other states introduced contact-tracing apps to their arsenal of tools to fight the spread of COVID-19. North Carolina’s app, SlowCOVIDNC, is ...