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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

Health warningsWe should start with two health warnings. First, bear in mind the publication da...

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.

The app is being trialled on the Isle of Wight and will be rolled out nationally if successful.

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

Frequently asked questions about the ABTraceTogether mobile app.

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

Huawei is in talks with global partners such as TomTom to help developers outside China implement personalised map displays and interactivity as well as improving the overall location-based service experience of their apps.

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

We’re providing aggregated, anonymized community mobility data to help public health officials make critical decisions.

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

Federal health officials say they could use anonymous, aggregated user data collected by the tech companies to map the spread of the virus.

A database with years of records was reportedly left open to the public web.

With consumers today asking for more authentic, personalized experiences, the German apparel manufacturer PUMA recently launched an outdoor campaign that involved audience targeting, programmatic c…