Privacy Concerns

More than 3,600 deaths nationwide have been linked to coronavirus outbreaks in nursing homes and long-term care facilities in the U.S., an alarming rise in just the past two weeks, according to the latest count by The Associated Press.Because the federal government has not been releasing a count of its…

Source: Jerry Hildenbrand / Android Central If you're stuck at home and spend time reading about technology, you probably heard how Zoom is some evil entity intent on stealing away your life and doing something equally evil to you if you use it. Labels like malware get thrown around and…

Thousands of Canadians have answered the federal government’s call for volunteers to assist in the fight against the novel coronavirus.Health Canada is building a database of specialized volunteers that provinces and territories can draw on to collect case data, help track down people who have been in contact with positive…

NEW DELHI: After NASA and Elon Musk’s space exploration company SpaceX, it’s now Google’s turn to ban its employees from using the Zoom app. Ever since work from home has become a norm across the world due to the coronavirus pandemic, professionals have turned to apps like Zoom. The teleconferencing…

Video-conferencing company du jour Zoom is desperately trying to head off a mass exodus of users by announcing a new advisory board – and hiring former Facebook and Yahoo! CSO Alex Stamos as a troubleshooter. In a roller-coaster few weeks for the tech upstart, it has seen its user base…

Verily, the life-sciences arm of Google's parent company, Alphabet, could soon connect patients with clinical trials for coronavirus treatments.Verily has a massive collection of patient data called Project Baseline that already helps drugmakers run studies by connecting them with participants.With so many drugs on the way that could treat the…

With many cities, states, and countries asking people to remain at home, Google and Facebook location data is being used to help determine how many people are complying with the coronavirus lockdown… Our sister site 9to5Google reports that Google is aggregating location data for 131 countries, measuring the drop-in visits…

A report claims that video-conferencing service Zoom does not actually use end-to-end encryption as it's normally defined because Zoom is still able to access unencrypted audio and video. According to The Intercept: Zoom, the video conferencing service whose use has spiked amid the Covid-19 pandemic, claims to implement end-to-end encryption,…

Nearly a week before the World Health Organization first warned of a mysterious new respiratory disease in Wuhan, China, a team of Boston-based sleuths at the global disease monitoring system HealthMap captured digital clues about the outbreak from an online press report. That same day, December 30, ProMED, another digital…

Weird times call for weird measures, and that means thousands and thousands of people using a business video conferencing app to show off their cats to their friends during a nationwide quarantine. Zoom has gotten a bunch of interest in the past few weeks as Americans scramble to figure out…