Used effectively, contact tracing slows the spread of disease and saves lives. In the past, contact tracing was done through health departments contacting people, but the rapid spread of COVID-19 led ...

Something that Google and other giant tech companies pushed heavily during the COVID-19 pandemic was an application that could attract contacts to help warn those who may have been exposed to the ...

A COVID-19 patient's iPhone receives its daily contract tracing message from the city of New York on November 19, 2020, in Brooklyn, New York. (Photo by Andrew Lichtenstein/Corbis via Getty Images) ...

Louisiana has released a voluntary contact tracing application for mobile phones that can let people know if they’ve been around someone who has tested positive for COVID-19. Gov. John Bel Edwards ...

To ensure that contact tracing apps protect users’ security, privacy and civil liberties, the Department of Homeland Security’s Science and Technology Directorate has tapped a startup to develop app ...

Apple has been hit with a lawsuit claiming that it rejected a coronavirus contact tracing app to maintain a COVID-19 exposure notification monopoly. The lawsuit, lodged in the U.S. District Court for ...

The Homeland Security Department selected a California-based startup to create and refine a means for gauging the security and privacy risks posed by digital COVID-19 contact tracing apps. As the ...

While contact tracing can be performed manually, there are a number of worker-safety apps available that will save you time and money. Chances are very high that your working situation has changed in ...

(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 ...

While contact tracing can be performed manually, there are a number of worker-safety apps available that will save you time and money. Chances are very high that your working situation has changed in ...