Caroline Haskins is a technology reporter for BuzzFeed News and is based in New York.
Exposure notifications and digital contact tracing are two different things. Choosing one or the other could change the course of the pandemic.
Healthy Together was supposed to help the state reopen. But very few people are using it.
Facing numerous lawsuits, the New York startup said it "is cancelling the accounts of every customer who was not either associated with law enforcement or some other federal, state, or local government department, office, or agency.”
The companies say that public health authorities have asked for help in designing what contact tracing apps might look like.
“Technology has an important role to play in mitigating the COVID-19 pandemic, but this health crisis cannot justify using unreliable surveillance tools that could undermine our privacy rights,” said Sen. Ed Markey.
Without enough human contact tracers to identify infected people, the US is barreling toward a digital solution, and possible disaster.
PredPol is one of the oldest and most controversial predictive policing companies. The LAPD just said it will stop using it because of the coronavirus pandemic.
The privacy policy for Vital's coronavirus symptom tracker for Multnomah, Clackamas, and Washington counties had previously reserved the right to sell residents' personal data.
As nations around the world take on sweeping new powers to fight the disease, critics aren't sure what's necessary and what's too far.
Daycare workers serving the children of SpaceX employees are asking the company for more serious measures to combat the novel coronavirus since learning a parent was tested after coming down with symptoms.
Without enough human contact tracers to identify infected people, the US is barreling toward a digital solution, and possible disaster.
Healthy Together was supposed to help the state reopen. But very few people are using it.
Exposure notifications and digital contact tracing are two different things. Choosing one or the other could change the course of the pandemic.
“Technology has an important role to play in mitigating the COVID-19 pandemic, but this health crisis cannot justify using unreliable surveillance tools that could undermine our privacy rights,” said Sen. Ed Markey.
The companies say that public health authorities have asked for help in designing what contact tracing apps might look like.
Etsy said that it has "taken down hundreds of items that attempt to exploit the developing coronavirus situation."
PredPol is one of the oldest and most controversial predictive policing companies. The LAPD just said it will stop using it because of the coronavirus pandemic.
“This gives a potential attacker access to view cameras in somebody’s home — that’s a real serious potential invasion of privacy right there.”
Hypothyroidism is easily treatable in almost everyone who has it. But social media is rife with bogus cures.
Gaggle monitors the work and communications of almost 5 million students in the US, and schools are paying big money for its services. Hundreds of company documents unveil a sprawling surveillance industrial complex that targets kids who can’t opt out.