Australia’s smart phone contact tracing app found 17 potential “cases”

The Australian government says its COVIDSafe app identified 2,827 potential close contacts from 37,668 encounters in NSW and Victoria. Only…

Smart phone contact tracing apps are a technology whose time never arrived: Months after agency officials said they were actively…

In reality, adoption of contract tracing apps by citizens was largely sporadic and unenthusiastic. A trio of researchers in Australia…

Last week, the UK contact dection phone system “pinged” one half million residents who were then forced into isolation for…

As explained in detail several times last year, smart phone-based, Bluetooth-based contact tracing apps were never likely to be useful.…

One year ago, the tech sector jumped in with a plan to develop smart phone based contact detection apps. These…

They were an ill conceived “great idea doomed to success”. Seemed like a great idea but in practice, they are…

The GPS-based contact tracking system was hardly used; the app will continue to have a Bluetooth “close encounter” detector but…

In May, a report said Iceland had achieved the largest penetration of any virus-tracking app, with 38% of its 364,000…

Update: The UK government terminated its contact tracing app trial, on going since the beginning of May and will now…