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A large part of fighting against the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic is the practice of contact tracing, where the whereabouts of an infected person can be traced and anyone who has been in contact with that person over the past days tested for COVID-19. While smartphone apps have been a popular choice …read more
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Contact tracing apps for the coronavirus are being developed and tested globally as the world starts to re-open. Are the apps worth using to flatten the curve? Or do data privacy worries trump public health? Continue reading Podcast: Would You Use A Contact-Tracing Coronavirus App?
Twelve applications posing as coronavirus contact tracing apps available outside mainstream marketplaces are designed to steal personal and financial information from unwitting Android users. Apps meant to impersonate official government tracing apps from countries including Italy, Russia and Singapore trigger malicious software capable of collecting a range of data from user’s devices, the threat intelligence firm Anomali found in research shared with CyberScoop prior to its publication. It’s the latest example of hackers and scammers exploiting global events to try stealing from anxious smartphone users who, in this case, would have believed they were downloading an app designed to measure the prevalence of COVID-19 in their community. None of the apps were included in the Google Play Store at press time. Anomali determined that apps were available on suspicious websites and in third-party app markets. Researchers were unable to determine how many people downloaded the suspicious apps, and the distinct […]
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Artificial intelligence (AI) has made waves across industries including automotive, health care, entertainment, finance, manufacturing, and more, while still a nascent technology. Another area where it made a significant impact is law enforcement (wit… Continue reading AI Surveillance in a Post-Pandemic World
As employees return to their workplaces and consumers begin scheduling appointments with dentists, doctors and salons, new protocols are in place. Temperatures will be taken. There will be questions about health, travel and socialization. Especially i… Continue reading Protecting Health Data Privacy in the Return to Work
Thousands have signed a petition that underscores data privacy issues with Singapore’s newly announced contact-tracing wearable, in development. Continue reading Singapore’s Contact Tracing Wearable Causes Privacy Backlash
Many governments in many countries around the world recognise that contact tracing plays a very important part to reduce the spread of the deadly disease, COVID-19. In this article, we take a look at the conventional method of contact tracking and comp… Continue reading Contact Tracing: De-mystifying How an App Designed to Track People Can Ensure User Privacy and Security
With the launch of the NHS contact-tracing app just around the corner, 48% of UK citizens do not trust the UK government to keep their information safe from bad actors, according to a nationwide survey released on May 27. The new NHS COVID-19 contact-t… Continue reading 48% of UK Public Believes Cybercriminals Will Abuse NHS COVID-19 Tracing App
Increased application and software usage heighten security concerns amongst consumers The past few months have placed digital transformation into overdrive, with consumers gravitating toward distance-enabling technology and applications more than ever … Continue reading Survey: Nearly Half of Americans Refusing or Unlikely to Opt-In to COVID-19 Contact Tracing Apps
“Healthy Together” app uses a raft of location data, including GPS, cell tower triangulation and Bluetooth, to pinpoint users and ID coronavirus hotspots. Continue reading Utah Says No to Apple/Google COVID-19 Tracing; Debuts Startup App