Despite very public messaging that the Bluetooth contact-tracing tools for COVID-19 developed by Google and Apple would not track users' locations, its implementation within Android operating systems ...

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 ...

In the age of cellphones and the internet, consumers often face a simple choice: convenience or privacy? Do we let Big Tech have access to our private communications and free email accounts because it ...

Did you know that Apple and Android phones have had COVID-19 contact tracing apps built into their operating systems? No? Well it doesn't matter, because Texas will not let residents use the system ...

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 ...

Apple and Google’s jointly developed COVID-19 tracking system will prohibit the use of location tacking, according to MIT Technology Review. The tech giants partnered in April to create the system, ...

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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 ...

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.