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Kashmiri health workers talk to local residents during a contact-tracing drive after the first person in the region tested positive on March 19, 2020. (Representative Image | AP)

India could soon have its own CoWin-20 app for contact tracing of...

The beta version of the app is being tested by a small group of individuals, say reports

25 March 2020 5:46 PM IST

The free and open-source prototype Private Kit app, was developed by teams at MIT and Harvard as well as software engineers of Facebook and Uber who worked on it in their free time.

Join efforts to trace the coronavirus route map in your locality by...

The MIT prototype Private Kit: Safe Paths app works by sharing location data between users, without revealing who the...

23 March 2020 5:46 PM IST

Many governments have already tried, mostly unsuccessfully, to roll out their own phone apps to fight the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic. Many of those apps have encountered technical problems on Apple and Android phones and havent been widely adopted. They often use GPS to track peoples location, which Apple and Google are banning from their new tool because of privacy and accuracy concerns.

After a long wait, Google and Apple release their joint COVID app...

It uses Bluetooth technology to detect when someone who downloaded the app has spent time near another app user who...

21 May 2020 7:55 PM IST

Not willing to let Google, Apple set terms, France building own government-monitored COVID app

Not willing to let Google, Apple set terms, France building own...

France, Britain, Norway say government needs access data to combat virus whereas the tech firms say they are adhering to...

20 May 2020 4:21 PM IST

A migrant worker carries his child as he walks along the Delhi- Ghaziabad highway to reach his native place, during a nationwide lockdown in the wake of coronavirus, in New Delhi, Thursday, April 30, 2020. Many migrant workers have not been paid for the past two months and therefore may not possess even a feature phone to make the toll-free call to the Aarogya Setu IVRS system. (Photo | PTI)

IVRS facility launched to bring those without smartphones under...

The Interactive Voice Response System will collect health data from landline and feature phone users and issue alerts...

6 May 2020 9:29 PM IST

People wear face masks as a preventive measure against the COVID-19 coronavirus as they use a phone app to scan a code required to prove their health and travel status before being allowed to enter a shopping mall in Beijing on May 2, 2020, the second day of a five-day national holiday. The debate on privacy protection while using such apps is especially urgent in Europe, where academics and civil liberties activists are pushing for solutions that protect personal data. Eastern nations are less likely to adhere to privacy protection norms followed in the West. (Photo | AFP)

Location tracking not allowed on apps using Google, Apple APIs but...

Aarogya Setu, which runs on its own Application Program Interface or API, is not bound by international privacy...

5 May 2020 8:32 PM IST

We must be sure that the app and its stated purpose is used for that, (and) not by governments, companies, etc, to find out who youre talking to, or where youre going, United Nations Internet Governance Forum (IGF) Secretariat Head Chengetai Masango said. (Photo | Pixabay - iXimus)

Governments, companies should not use COVID apps to find out users'...

United Nations Internet Governance Forum (IGF) Secretariat Head Chengetai Masango said privacy should be paramount.

29 Jun 2020 8:17 PM IST

The app framework developed jointly by Google and Apple relies on Bluetooth technology to alert users if they came into contact with a COVID-19 infected person.

After dissing Google-Apple COVID app model, UK now embraces it

Earlier, the UK government had said the privacy controls that the app developed by the tech companies was unsuitable and...

18 Jun 2020 9:58 PM IST

The German COVID apps developers used the coding site Github to let the public look over their shoulder and suggest improvements.

Germans among most privacy conscious, government develops COVID app...

In Germany, a person's right to their own data even after death is rooted in the Constitution.

16 Jun 2020 7:04 PM IST

The app was suspended ahead of an Amnesty International report analyzing contact tracing apps from Europe, the Middle East and North Africa, which found that the Norwegian app was one of the most alarming for privacy because of its live or near-live tracking of users locations. The rights group said it shared its findings with authorities earlier this month and urged them to change course.

Privacy violation not justified anymore as case count drops, Norways...

Norway currently has between 50 and 100 confirmed cases of COVID-19.

15 Jun 2020 9:57 PM IST

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu defended his decision to bypass parliament at the time, arguing lives could be lost while lawmakers debated legislation. (Photo | AFP)

Stop using state spy agency to track phones for coronavirus tracing:...

The government had controversially approved Shin Bet's use of surveillance for the Covid-19 illness as an emergency...

10 Jun 2020 10:05 PM IST

The COVID-19 apps also continuously collect and process highly sensitive and personally identifiable information, about health, location and direct identifiers like name, age, email address and voter or national identification of a user.

In the next James Bond film, 007 should use COVID-19 app data; it...

Most COVID apps access data from mobile devices such as contacts, photos, media, files, location data, camera and...

9 Jun 2020 4:10 PM IST