Despite very public messaging that the Bluetooth contact-tracing tools for COVID-19 developed by Google and Apple would not track users' locations, its implementation within Android operating systems ...

The Massachusetts Department of Public Health (DPH) is facing a class-action lawsuit for allegedly using Google technology to covertly install tracking apps on over one million Android phones as part ...

The state Department of Public Health was accused of working with Google to “secretly” install COVID-19 contact tracing “spyware” onto more than 1 million Android smartphones. The New Civil Liberties ...

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 ...

SEATTLE — As parts of the country look to reopen the economy, a new app by the University of Washington hopes to be a reliable way to track the virus and its future spread. The CovidSafe app is ...

Though for years, infectious disease experts have warned of the looming dangers of a global pandemic, the novel COVID-19 virus took common folk by surprise, debilitating the planet since early 2020.