That was, in a nutshell, many Mexico City residents’ response upon learning via a Nov. 13 tweet of their local government’s new plan to better trace COVID-19 cases: asking people to scan QR codes on ...

At least 21 percent of the U.S. population has access to one of the official COVID-19 contact-tracing apps developed by various state governments, but only a fraction of people actually use them. And ...

DE PERE, Wis. (WBAY) - The Unified School District of De Pere is using QR codes for COVID-19 contact tracing. The QR code program was created by district’s data specialist. Students use their ...

The idea behind digital contact tracing is that, when an individual tests positive for an infectious disease such as COVID-19, an app on their smartphone can send a notification to other smartphones ...

The Defense Department is looking for a better way to conduct contact tracing. Also known as proximity logging, the Defense Health Agency wants commanders and Force Health Protection staff to be able ...

Anyone who has been to a restaurant in the last few months might have scanned a square barcode with their phone to pull up their dinner menu or pay for their meals to limit contact with servers. Now ...

Bitter enemies teamed up to build tools they hoped would help slow the virus’s spread. If we’ve learned anything from covid-19, it’s the extent to which our lives are enmeshed with those of the people ...

Matt Katz couldn’t be easier to find. He’s a journalist living in Philadelphia, and picks up the phone when strange numbers call. He’d given all his contact information to the company that tested him ...

Privacy concerns have been raised after ministers in Singapore's government acknowledged that data collected by its widely used COVID-19 contact-tracing program may ...

One bespoke contact tracing device is a bluetooth ‘pen’ device, which can be handed in if diagnosed without relying on smartphones. There’s definitely such a thing as society – which is a huge ...

Nine months into a pandemic that has killed 210,000 people in the United States, health officials are imploring residents to answer their phones. The caller may be a disease tracker trying to save you ...