contact tracing
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Germany’s Coronavirus-Tracking App Set to Release This Week as Nation Reopens
Germany will soon roll out its coronavirus-tracking smartphone app, the country’s health minister, Jens Spahn, announced Sunday.
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India’s Mandated Contact Tracing App Is An Invasive, Insecure Mess
No matter how you feel about contact tracing, it’s been openly embraced by federal authorities around the world, from the UK, to Germany, to, well, you name it, as a way to curb the spread of the current pandemic. And while every country grapples with the long-term privacy implications of downloading this sort of tracking…
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Most Of Us Won’t Download The Coronavirus Contact Tracing App Unless Everyone Does
As governments look to ease general social-distancing measures and instead use more targeted strategies to stop coronavirus transmission, we face a social dilemma about the limits of cooperative behaviour.
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Scott Morrison Is Now Saying Australia’s Coronvirus Tracing App Won’t Be Mandatory
This week the government announced its upcoming COVID-19 contact tracing app. Not a lot is publicly known about it yet, which has led to some privacy concerns. On Friday Prime Minister Scott Morrison didn’t rule the possibility of making it mandatory when asked about it during an interview. Now he has taken to Twitter to…