Instagram’s new Data Policy – And why I deleted the Instagram app yesterday – Social Panic
I deleted my last FB/IG app from a device yesterday. I still had IG running on one Android tablet but I no longer view use of FB/IG apps as safe.…
What is the most power efficient (least electricity use) programming language?
Can energy usage data tell us anything about the quality of our programming languages? Last year a team of six researchers in Portugal from three different universities decided to investigate…
IOT, Covid: Smart Watch fitness trackers may help predict Covid-19 infections and outbreaks
Combines self reported data and information such as heart rate, from fitness trackers and smart phones to identify potential Covid-19 infections: Source: Early results from DETECT study suggest fitness trackers…
Contact tracing apps do not track surface or air contacts across time | Coldstreams Business and Tech
Re-running this post with a few minor updates. Contact tracing apps do not track surface or air contacts across time | Coldstreams Business and Tech Bluetooth-based contact tracing apps are…
Covid-19 tracing apps: UK’s tracking app continues to be a mess
3 days after official launch the UK’s contact tracing app is a mess: Users who report symptoms but then get a negative test result still must isolate because there is…
Remember smart phone tracing apps?
Update: This says several U.S. states have rolled out contact tracing apps. Plus, Google and Apple just announced they are now rolling out contact tracing apps to all Android and…
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…