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Apple-Google Contact Tracing App Gets First Trial in Switzerland
2020-05-29 20:51:51| TechNewsWorld
Switzerland has launched a pilot program for SwissCovid, a contact tracing app based on Apple and Google's jointly developed APIs. The APIs will work with iOS 13.5 and devices running Android 6.0 or higher. The pilot involves several thousand workers at Ecole polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne, ETH Zurich, the Swiss Army, and staff at some hospitals and cantonal administrations.
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French parliament votes in favour of govt's StopCovid tracing app
2020-05-28 10:21:00| Telecompaper Headlines
(Telecompaper) Based on Bluetooth, StopCovid has been created by a group of French research institutes and private companies, including Orange. Unlike similar Covid-19 tracing apps, it will not use the API developed by Apple and Google, which relies on a decentralised design. Instead, its developers have adopted a centralised contact-tracing protocol that collects pseudonymous data.
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Google, Apple release jointly developed API for Covid-19 tracing apps
2020-05-21 08:31:00| Telecompaper Headlines
(Telecompaper) Apple and Google have released their jointly developed API for Covid-19 tracing apps. The software is expected to help public health authorities build smartphone apps to alert people when they are exposed to the virus.
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UK Rejects Apple-Google Contact Tracing Approach
2020-04-29 13:00:00| TechNewsWorld
The UK's plans to launch a smartphone application to track potential COVID-19 infections won't include Apple and Google. The country's National Health Service has designed its own mobile software to do contact tracing of people exposed to the coronavirus. The NHS reportedly found that its own tech works "sufficiently well." The NHS chose a centralized model for its data collection and storage.
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Outrage in France as govt withdraws vote on coronavirus tracing app
2020-04-29 02:00:00| Total Telecom industry news
The French government caused outrage on Monday after it pulled a U-turn and withdrew the proposed vote on the upcoming “StopCovid” app. The vote, previously scheduled for this week, had been sought by lawmakers after privacy concerns were raised around the apps data usage by the government. Data gathered via mobile apps can be invaluable in the fight against the coronavius pandemic…read more on TotalTele.com »