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 ...

The AlohaSafe Alert app, Hawaii’s free state-approved COVID-19 exposure notification system, will shut down on Thursday. The app will no longer be available on May 11, according to a note posted to ...

In 2020, people wanted a way to tell if they might have been exposed to COVID-19. More than 20 states in the U.S., including Pennsylvania and Delaware, used a smartphone app that applied existing ...

Within weeks of Covid-19 shutting down the world in 2020, teams at archrivals Apple and Google partnered on a rare joint project. They developed a way to log people’s proximity using Bluetooth chips ...

RALEIGH, NC (WWAY) — The North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services (NCDHHS) is developing a COVID-19 Exposure Notification app called “SlowCOVIDNC.” It’s set to launch this month. NCDHHS ...

RICHMOND, Va. (WAVY) — Virginia has launched an extension of its existing COVIDWISE technology. On Tuesday, the Virginia Department of Health announced the launch of COVIDWISE Express, an app-less ...

WA Notify, an app launched by Washington state to inform people if they’d been exposed to someone who recently tested positive for COVID-19, is scheduled to sunset on May 11. The Washington State ...

Washington’s COVID-19 exposure notification app is scheduled to conclude May 11 in tandem with the end of the Public Health Emergency. The smartphone application uses privacy-preserving Bluetooth ...

The Washington State Department of Health (DOH) announced Monday that its COVID-19 exposure notification smartphone app, WA Notify, is going away today. The COVID-19 exposure notification app is ...

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