The Android version of Google and Apple's COVID-19 contact tracing app had a privacy flaw that let other preinstalled apps potentially see sensitive user data.
Alberta has rolled out a digital contact tracing app to help monitor COVID-19 infections as the quarantine restrictions begin to ease. Whether people actually use it is another issue entirely.
The NHS has already begun building a second smartphone app to trace the spread of the coronavirus, after criticism of the first app it launched this week on the Isle of Wight.
Apple and Google are together working on an app to help track the spread of the coronavirus, but a new poll finds that there may be some hurdles to it being successful in the United States.
The UK will not adopt Apple and Google's model for contact-tracing apps, alarming privacy activists who fear the UK will launch an app that risks people's privacy and security.
Almost 2 million Australians have downloaded a coronavirus tracing app within hours of its release, Health Minister Greg Hunt announced Monday, as the country moves to ease restrictions.