Half of Americans won’t trust contact-tracing apps, new poll finds
Apple and Google have proposed a platform that would let everyone's smartphones become part of a massive national contact-tracing network. Overall, the poll indicates that only 41 percent of American adults have both the technological capacity and the will to use a contact-tracing app.
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Garmin hit with massive outage in suspected ransomware attack
Garmin, the GPS and wearable device company, says a widespread blackout has left its fitness devices, website and call centers offline for more than 24 hours in what may be a ransomware attack. "We are currently experiencing an outage that affects Garmin.com and Garmin Connect," the company announced on Twitter and the Garmin Connect website .
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Privacy issue with Contact Tracing apps
Privacy issue with Contact Tracing apps
At this point, contact tracing apps have to collect a lot of information about you and share it with other organizations. For example, Jumbo Privacy recently found that North Dakota’s COVID-19 contact tracing app, Care19, shares user data with Google, Foursquare, and other companies.
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Fastest app ever to reach 50 million downloads
Aarogya Setu, India’s coronavirus contact tracing app that didn’t even exist about 2 months ago, now nearly has 100 million users. Within two weeks of its launch in April, the app reached 50 million users to become the fastest app ever to reach that milestone. “We beat Pokémon Go,” says a smiling Arnab Kumar, who is leading the development of the service for the Indian government
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With new coronavirus tracker, Apple and Google may finally get their big break in health care
A high-profile failure to gain the trust of users, public health agencies and industry partners could "come back to haunt Apple and Google" in future health initiatives, said Joy Pritts, a health privacy expert and a former top adviser for privacy and security at the Department of Health and Human Services.
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