The global discussion surrounding contact tracing apps has long been about the pressing issue of privacy. When it comes to such sensitive information like one’s health condition, it’s not surprising ...

Woolworths has announced it will be trialling a QR code contact tracing initiative, as well as using Rewards data where it can to reduce the spread of COVID-19. Voluntary to customers, the contract ...

The New South Wales government has updated the Service NSW app to include a QR code scanner as part of a trial that would allow customers to easily check in at hospitality venues across the state and ...

That was, in a nutshell, many Mexico City residents’ response upon learning via a Nov. 13 tweet of their local government’s new plan to better trace COVID-19 cases: asking people to scan QR codes on ...

India said it will publicly release the source code of its contact-tracing app, Aarogya Setu, to the relief of privacy and security experts who have been advocating for this ever since the app ...

French research institute Inria has released a small portion of the source code that is going to power France’s contact-tracing app, StopCovid. It is available on several GitLab repositories under the ...

The following edited version is based on two reports written by Almond Li and Peter Lee in the Hong Kong Free Press (HKFP) on July 11, 2022. It is published on Global Voices under a content ...