7 in 10 Americans won’t use contact-tracing apps
No surprise: More than 7 in 10 Americans won’t use contact-tracing apps, data shows | Ars Technica With 30% agreeing to install such apps today, that means just 9% of…
Norwegian Institute of Public Health cancels their smart phone tracing app due to privacy issues
One of the first national coronavirus contacts tracing apps to be launched in Europe is being suspended in Norway after the country’s data protection authority raised concerns that the software,…
Smartphone tracking apps lose favor: “What happened to all the coronavirus tracking apps? – CNN”
Last week, Singapore pulled the plug on its own Bluetooth-based smart phone contact tracing app: Covid-19 tracking apps were hailed as a way to help countries out of lockdown. Instead…
Phone-based contact tracing did not work: “Singapore plans wearable virus-tracing device for all”
Told ‘ya: Testing of the small devices, which can be worn on the end of a lanyard or carried in a handbag, follows limited take-up of an earlier smartphone-based system…
A thorough analysis of how mobile phone apps and location data are being used worldwide for attempts at Covid-19 tracking
The linked report is a very thorough analysis of what is being done in countries throughout the world in regards to cell phone data for Covid-19 tracking, and looks at…
Contact tracing apps do not track surface and air contacts across time
First: India mandates workers use COVID-19 tracing app, France rolls out tracing tool and other tracking efforts | MobiHealthNews The WSJ also reports that China’s health tracking app will be…
Why “Covid-Tracking Apps” will probably not work
I previously wrote about covid tracking apps and that what a “tracking app” is varies tremendously by country. Please read that first. There is another issue that crops up –…
Apple-Google Bluetooth “contact tracing app” depends on widespread adoption to be useful
The biggest challenge for these apps going forward is adoption. The more phones that opt-in to the system, the more successfully it can detect how the virus spreads. Apple and…
Experts criticize ICL’s Ferguson’s Covid SIM model as garbage
Those of us who have seen Neil Ferguson’s ICL Covid sim model have the same views as this computational epidemiologist: As Ferguson himself admits, the code was written 13 years…
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Covid tracking apps summarized
When people mention “Covid tracking apps” it would be useful to first define what is meant by “Covid tracking app”. There are many approaches in use and many that are…