Privacy Concerns

With Britain in lockdown, the Government has been racing to find ways to ease restrictions without putting public safety at risk.   One solution is a contact-tracing app that can enable digital contact-tracing on a large scale. The government has revealed of the app, which is being tested on the Isle of…

Andrew Frame launched Citizen in 2017, merging 911-dispatch data and your smartphone’s GPS location to alert you about nearby dangers—fires, robberies, car crashes, assaults. Now he’s betting Citizen's mobile technology, location capabilities and network of millions of users can warn you about possible Covid-19 exposure. “We're all at war. Right…

With Britain in lockdown, the Government has been racing to find ways to ease restrictions without putting public safety at risk.   One solution is a contact-tracing app that can enable digital contact-tracing on a large scale. On May 5, the Government revealed its first attempt at a contact-tracing app. But…

With Britain in lockdown, the Government has been racing to find ways to ease restrictions without putting public safety at risk.   One solution is a contact-tracing app that can enable digital contact-tracing on a large scale. The government has revealed of the app, which is being tested on the Isle of…

With Britain in lockdown, the Government has been racing to find ways to ease restrictions without putting public safety at risk.   One solution is a contact-tracing app that can enable digital contact-tracing on a large scale. On May 5, the Government revealed its first attempt at a contact-tracing app. But…

Thousands have signed a petition that underscores data privacy issues with Singapore’s newly announced contact-tracing wearable, in development. Singapore’s announcement that it is developing a wearable for contact tracing has caused citizens to voice concern for the technology’s impact on their data privacy, with more than 35,000 signing a petition…

With Britain in lockdown, the Government has been racing to find ways to ease restrictions without putting public safety at risk.   One solution is a contact-tracing app that can enable digital contact-tracing on a large scale. The government has revealed of the app, which is being tested on the Isle of…

With Britain in lockdown, the Government has been racing to find ways to ease restrictions without putting public safety at risk.   One solution is a contact-tracing app that can enable digital contact-tracing on a large scale. The government has revealed of the app, which is being tested on the Isle of…

With Britain in lockdown, the Government has been racing to find ways to ease restrictions without putting public safety at risk.   One solution is a contact-tracing app that can enable digital contact-tracing on a large scale. On May 5, the Government revealed its first attempt at a contact-tracing app. But…

As controversies around online speech rage against a backdrop of racial tension, presidential provocation and a pandemic, a handful of companies, lawmakers and advocacy groups have continued to promote a backlash against Big Tech.The big picture: Companies like Facebook and Google got a reputational boost at the start of the…