Utah mostly abandons its contact tracing smart phone app
The GPS-based contact tracking system was hardly used; the app will continue to have a Bluetooth “close encounter” detector but unless a majority install the app, its mostly useless. “We’ve…
Smart phone Covid-19 contact tracing apps accomplishing little
In May, a report said Iceland had achieved the largest penetration of any virus-tracking app, with 38% of its 364,000 inhabitants installing it. But the Iceland app, which collected people’s…
Primary business of the Internet is spying: More apps found to have copied contents of your phone’s clipboard
The New York Times, Wall Street Journal, HuffPost, and scores of other apps may have accessed your passwords and other copy and pasted data. Source: Tons of news apps caught…
coronavirus apps do not need 60+% adoption to be effective
A meme has been established that smart phone contact tracing apps need at least 60% adoption to provide any benefit. That is not the correct interpretation as their could be…
Adoption of contact tracing app in France off to a very slow start
France was one of the first Western countries to build an app to track exposure to the coronavirus, but sluggish takeup rates could limit its usefulness in preventing a second…
UK’s NHS Covid-19 contact-tracing app postponed until next winter
Their Isle of Wight trial taught them several things – and the UK has now postponed the roll out of a smart phone contact tracing app until probably the end…
Japan pulls its coronavirus tracking smartphone app due to software design errors
The Japanese government has pledged to fix within a week bugs that have caused its coronavirus contact-tracing smartphone app to be shut down, the health minister said Tuesday. The free…
UK smart phones display feature update for contract tracing – but its confusing as its not actual contact tracing
Update: The UK government terminated its contact tracing app trial, on going since the beginning of May and will now develop a new contact tracing app based on the Google/Apple…
Australia’s Bluetooth-based contact tracing app deemed largely irrelevant
Says they’ve identified a total of … one person: The PM told Australians in April the contact tracing app was key to getting back to normal but just one person…
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…