Apple today announced that it is making some updates to AirTags with the aim of cutting down on unwanted tracking. There are several changes that...

Opposition MPs want the House of Commons ethics committee to investigate the Public Health Agency of Canada's decision to collect data from millions of mobile phones to understand travel patterns during the COVID-pandemic.

A group of volunteers from Shopify has released COVID Shield, a contact-tracing app to help combat COVID-19.The app uses Bluetooth technology to trace and notify possible exposure to the coronavirus.

Geofence warrants, sometimes known as reverse location requests, allow police get data from all devices in targeted areas.

Installing hidden spy software is illegal. It's also easy.

GroundTruth’s new Covid-19 Insights tracker gives brands a way to track foot traffic down to the zip code level. The tracker is updated weekly, with the ability to search for daily foot traffic acr…

Our work | COVID-19 Exit through the App Store? A rapid evidence review of the technical considerations and societal implications of using technology to transition from the COVID-19 crisis was...

Getting over the novel coronavirus pandemic, health experts and officials say, will take an extensive contact tracing regime in order to determine who

Governments and companies are building digital solutions to trace COVID-19’s spread. But public health experts say human labor and trust is irreplaceable.

MIT Project for Contract Tracing software

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A rapid evidence review published by the Ada Lovelace Institute sets out proposals for whether, and how, the UK Government should use technology to transition from the COVID-19 global public...

Without enough human contact tracers to identify infected people, the US is barreling toward a digital solution, and possible disaster.

Technology cannot displace human contact tracers: creator of TraceTogether.gov.sg, the world’s first national Bluetooth contact tracing app

Millions of Indian citizens are being forced to download the country’s tracking app—a line no other democracy has yet crossed in the fight against the coronavirus.

To reopen, the U.S. needs to quickly train and deploy thousands of people to track potential Covid-19 infections — because technology alone can’t do the job.

To reopen, the U.S. needs to quickly train and deploy thousands of people to track potential Covid-19 infections — because technology alone can’t do the job.

Researcher Oeindrila Dube is part of a team that uses anonymous phone location data to reveal which businesses are most likely to facilitate the spread of coronavirus, from restaurants to hair salons to gym.

Cellphone location data show one in six across country leave their neighbourhoods on weekends now, a sharp drop from two months ago

Alberta officials say this is the first contact-tracing app for COVID-19 to launch in North America.

There’s a lot of chat, and a lot of reports out (I’ll get around to listing them when I take the time to…) regarding the potential use of phone apps of various flavours regarding …

Flatten.ca is quickly becoming a go-to source of information about how COVID-19 is spreading across Canada

This app can track suspected patients who have been quarantined by setting up a geo-fence around them. If they move out of that radius, the app will alert authorities

Google (GOOGL) is publicly releasing the data it's already collecting about people's movements during the coronavirus pandemic.

The FCC proposed fines against the four largest wireless carriers in the United States for allegedly selling access to their customers' location information without taking reasonable measures to protect against unauthorized access.

Indiana high court: Removing a small unmarked device from your car isn't theft.

The apps covertly track activity on victims' phones.

Exclusive: Advertisers are collecting info that can help them skirt an Android privacy feature, according to new research.