Google is force-installing a Massachusetts COVID-19 tracking app on residents' Android devices without an easy way to uninstall it. For the past few days, users have reported that Google silently ...

Over the weekend, Google and the state of Massachusetts managed to make creepy COVID tracking apps even creepier by automatically installing them on people’s Android phones. Numerous reports on Reddit ...

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A version of this article first appeared on the website of the Public Interest Technology program at New America. During the COVID-19 pandemic, alongside social distancing and masks, governments and ...

RALEIGH, NC — Six months ago, Apple and Google introduced a new smartphone tool designed to notify people who might have been exposed to the coronavirus, without disclosing any personal information.

Amid grim headlines related to the coronavirus, Virginia has one piece of bright news — the commonwealth leads the nation in the percentage of citizens who have downloaded a COVID-19 app to alert ...

Research shows that 2.14% of possible COVID-19 cases were recorded in exposure notification apps across 26 states, leading to questions about how well the system worked. Of the 26 states that adopted ...

A new Travel Pass iPhone app from the IATA aims to become how airlines can check passengers have had coronavirus vaccinations. "IATA Travel Pass is a mobile app that helps travelers to store and ...

(TNS) — Massachusetts public health officials are testing a Bluetooth app that alerts users if they have potentially been exposed to the coronavirus — a "new tool in our toolbox to fight COVID," ...