MIT Technology Review's Covid Tracing Tracker @MITTRtracker

As the world fights coronavirus, there's a flood of covid-19 apps. Our project is tracking the apps that are tracking you. technologyreview.com/2020/05/07/100… Cambridge, MA and worldwide Joined May 2020

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MIT Technology Review's Covid Tracing Tracker @MITTRtracker

5 years ago

New from @techreview: Why do contact tracing apps in Australia and France have such low notification rates? Millions of people, almost zero alerts. @charlottejee has the answer: part lower case rates, part lower penetration, part bad design/policy. technologyreview.com/2020/07/10/100…

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MIT Technology Review's Covid Tracing Tracker @MITTRtracker

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This @natashanyt piece on covid technology has a good breakdown of where things came to a head with Norway's Smittestop app: nytimes.com/2020/07/08/tec…

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MIT Technology Review's Covid Tracing Tracker @MITTRtracker

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Adding a database entry for Belgium—one of the early centers of the European outbreak—which is planning to launch a voluntary contact tracing app in September, and will be using the same platform as Germany. #changelog brusselstimes.com/all-news/belgi…

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MIT Technology Review's Covid Tracing Tracker @MITTRtracker

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We're adding an entry for the Philippines, where its Staysafe.ph app claims 1.26 million users. #changelog staysafe.ph This story says the app is going to be fully handed over to govt in August manilastandard.net/opinion/column…

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MIT Technology Review's Covid Tracing Tracker @MITTRtracker

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This CNBC story has some download numbers in that are useful for our coronavirus contact tracing app #changelog cnbc.com/2020/07/03/why… Singapore: 2.1m France: 1.9m Germany: 14m

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MIT Technology Review's Covid Tracing Tracker @MITTRtracker

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Australia's CovidSafe app had a number of known bugs which meant it could only spot other phones 25% of the time—but the public wasn't informed. abc.net.au/news/science/2…

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A look inside the project to build a contact tracing app in the UK—which was supposed to launch in mid-May—from @TBIJ. The results of a pilot program haven't yet been released; the govt has changed direction at significant expense. thebureauinvestigates.com/stories/2020-0…

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5 years ago

.@HughLangley and @aaronpholmes asked every US state what was happening with contact tracing apps: businessinsider.com/apple-google-c… they largely confirmed what we found for our US database—not a lot happening so far and some states ruling it out entirely technologyreview.com/2020/06/02/100…

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5 years ago

A look by @timesofindia at the covid containment system put in place in the state of Karnataka—including a dedicated tracing app: timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/bengaluru… (

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MIT Technology Review's Covid Tracing Tracker @MITTRtracker

5 years ago

We started tracking US contact tracing apps by state: but we need your help! If your state has an effort underway, please tweet us or email details to [email protected] technologyreview.com/2020/06/02/100…