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| May 11, 2020 | Three Questions on COVID-19 and Digital Technologies | If software has been eating the world for the past decade, it has consumed the world entirely in recent weeks. From happy hours and job interviews to virtual funerals, weeks of quarantine and self-isolation in the midst of the coronavirus p... |
| Apr 27, 2020 | More Than a Million Australians Download COVIDSafe Tracing App | Australia’s Bluetooth-powered coronavirus tracing app, COVIDSafe, has just been released across the country for Android and IOS devices and has already been downloaded by more than one million people.
The smartphone app asks people to regis... |
| Apr 21, 2020 | European scientists and researchers raise privacy concerns over coronavirus contact tracing apps | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
(Reuters) — A rift has opened up over the design of smartphone apps to trace people in Europe at risk of coronavirus infection, potenti... |
| Apr 21, 2020 | European scientists and researchers raise privacy concerns over coronavirus contact tracing apps | (Reuters) — A rift has opened up over the design of smartphone apps to trace people in Europe at risk of coronavirus infection, potentially hindering efforts to curb the pandemic and ease crippling travel restrictions.
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| Apr 20, 2020 | Rift opens over European coronavirus contact tracing apps | By Douglas Busvine
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BERLIN (Reuters) - A rift has opened up over the design of smartphone apps to trace people in Europe at risk of coronavirus infection, potentially hindering efforts to curb the pandemic and ease crippling trave... |
| Apr 20, 2020 | France’s Inria and Germany’s Fraunhofer detail their ROBERT contact-tracing protocol | Research institutes Inria and Fraunhofer have shared details on their contact-tracing protocol that could be used by the French and German governments in the coming weeks. It is named ROBERT for ROBust and privacy-presERving proximity Traci... |
| Apr 17, 2020 | European coronavirus app platform gains traction with governments | By Douglas Busvine
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BERLIN (Reuters) - A European technology platform to support smartphone apps that can help trace people at risk of infection by the new coronavirus is gaining support from governments, one of its prime movers s... |
| Apr 17, 2020 | Europe’s PEPP-PT COVID-19 contacts tracing standard push could be squaring up for a fight with Apple and Google | A coalition of EU scientists and technologists that’s developing what’s billed as a “privacy-preserving” standard for Bluetooth-based proximity tracking, as a proxy for COVID-19 infection risk, wants Apple and Google to make changes to an A... |
| Apr 16, 2020 | COVID-19 Is a Severe Test for Germany’s Postwar Constitution | On March 22, in response to a stark reassessment of the risk of infection with the novel coronavirus and skyrocketing increases in case numbers, Germany finally took drastic measures. Chancellor Angela Merkel—who only days before had emphas... |
| Apr 16, 2020 | Decentralized Protocol Removed From EU Contact Tracing Website Without Notice | The Pan-European Privacy-Preserving Proximity Tracing (PEPP-PT) consortium, which is charged with helping develop the protocols for a privacy-focused European Union contact tracing system, has removed any mention of the decentralized protoc... |
| Apr 15, 2020 | Apple-Google alliance welcomed by European coronavirus app platform | By Douglas Busvine
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BERLIN (Reuters) - An Apple collaboration with Google will make it quicker to get systems for tracing coronavirus infections up and running, the prime mover behind a European effort to support the smartphone te... |
| Apr 15, 2020 | The European Coronavirus App Platform welcomes the Apple-Google Collaboration as a way to shorten a path to Deployment
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Search | A new Reuters report today states that the Apple-Google collaboration on a contact tracing API will make it quicker to get systems up and running in a European program led by Chris Boos who is championing the Pan-European Privacy Preserving... |
| Apr 14, 2020 | German tech startups plead for European approach to corona tracing app | By Douglas Busvine
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BERLIN (Reuters) - Europe should not cede its sovereignty to Silicon Valley when it comes to using technology to help trace those at risk of coronavirus infection, the German developers of a smartphone app said... |
| Apr 13, 2020 | Europe Debates COVID-19 Contact Tracing That Respects Privacy | This weekend, Google and Apple announced a massive coronavirus partnership. In the coming months, they’ll be rolling out updates to their operating systems to enable “contact tracing” – the process of identifying carriers of coronavirus so ... |
| Apr 13, 2020 | What privacy-preserving coronavirus tracing apps need to succeed | This article is part of a VB special issue. Read the full series: AI and Surveillance.
At present, most of the U.S. population is being asked to stay home to flatten the curve of the coronavirus pandemic, but as hundreds of millions of peop... |
| Apr 11, 2020 | Apple and Google detail bold and ambitious plan to track COVID-19 at scale | Enlarge
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| Apr 8, 2020 | Watchdog Calls for Single EU COVID-19 Tracking App | The European Data Protection Supervisor, Europe’s data protection watchdog in charge of overseeing privacy for EU institutions, has called for a single EU wide contact tracing app to be developed to help countries work together to slow the ... |
| Apr 8, 2020 | France is officially working on ‘Stop Covid’ contact-tracing app | France’s health minister Olivier Véran and digital minister Cédric O have officially announced that the French government is working on a smartphone app to slow the spread of COVID-19. The government is putting a stamp of approval on the Pa... |
| Apr 6, 2020 | EU privacy experts push a decentralized approach to COVID-19 contacts tracing | A group of European privacy experts has proposed a decentralized system for Bluetooth-based COVID-19 contacts tracing which they argue offers greater protection against abuse and misuse of people’s data than apps which pull data into centra... |
| Apr 3, 2020 | More like Covid-1984 | Will Covid-19 spell the end of Europe’s long-cherished privacy ideals and give way to widespread technology-fueled state surveillance?
Countries across the region have been ramping up data-tracking technology to follow the trail of coronavi... |
| Apr 2, 2020 | Surveillance, AI, and saving lives top agenda at coronavirus conference | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
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| Apr 2, 2020 | Surveillance, AI, and saving lives top agenda at coronavirus conference | The Stanford Institute of Human-Centered AI (HAI) hosted a conference to discuss applications of AI that governments, technologists, and public health officials are using to save human lives during the global coronavirus pandemic. Based on ... |
| Apr 1, 2020 | European experts ready smartphone technology to help stop coronavirus | By Douglas Busvine
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BERLIN (Reuters) - A group of European experts said on Wednesday they would soon launch technology for smartphones to help trace people who had come into contact with those infected with coronavirus, helping th... |
| Apr 1, 2020 | An EU coalition of techies is backing a ‘privacy-preserving’ standard for COVID-19 contacts tracing | A European coalition of techies and scientists drawn from at least eight countries, and led by Germany’s Fraunhofer Heinrich Hertz Institute for telecoms (HHI), is working on contacts-tracing proximity technology for COVID-19 that’s designe... |