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Les données de l’application de traçage australienne accidentellement collectées par une agence de renseignement - 25 novembre 2020
Un rapport rédigé au sujet de COVIDSafe, l’application de traçage numérique australienne, révèle une collecte indue des données de l’application. Sans preuve à ce jour d’une quelconque utilisation de ces informations.
Une ou plusieurs des principales agences australiennes de renseignement et de sécurité ont collecté (...)
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8 million people, 14 alerts : why some covid-19 apps are staying silent - 11 août 2020
Critics have rounded on contact tracing apps in France and Australia for sending out almost no virus notifications. But experts say it’s not a total failure—as long as we learn what went wrong.
When France launched its app for digital contact tracing, it looked like a possible breakthrough for the virus-ravaged (...)
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Coronavirus : The great contact-tracing apps mystery - 22 juillet 2020
Germany and Ireland have both trumpeted their success in rolling out contact-tracing apps.
But is there any evidence that they are doing what they are designed to do - warning people they could be infected with the virus ?
Not yet - and the privacy-conscious way in which they are designed could mean we will (...)
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Why Coronavirus Contact-Tracing Apps Aren’t Ending the Pandemic - 4 juillet 2020
High hopes that technology would help supplement the traditional, labor-intensive approach to contact tracing have been dashed.
As Covid-19 spread, sending almost every country into some form of lockdown, governments began to wonder how best to keep track of the deadly virus. Contact-tracing apps seemed a (...)
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Ethical guidelines for COVID-19 tracing apps - 26 juin 2020
Protect privacy, equality and fairness in digital contact tracing with these key questions.
Technologies to rapidly alert people when they have been in contact with someone carrying the coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 are part of a strategy to bring the pandemic under control. Currently, at least 47 contact-tracing apps (...)
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Een snelle uitweg uit de lockdown ? Niet met een app - 1er juin 2020
Het ene land na het andere land beloofde dit voorjaar een app om coronabesmettingen op te sporen. Maar in de praktijk schiet de technologie nog tekort. Daarom, terug van weggeweest : het vertrouwde, handmatige contactonderzoek.
Toen Sam Aldridge voor het eerst hoorde over een app die nagaat met wie je allemaal in (...)
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We were told technology would end Covid-19 lockdowns, but the truth is there’s no app for that - 1er juin 2020
In many countries, contact-tracing apps were presented as a precondition to end lockdowns. But our Track(ed) Together investigation reveals that many countries are struggling with the technology, turning instead to less high-tech solutions.
Sam Aldridge was sceptical when she first heard about Australia’s (...)
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Revue articles et communications autour de Stop-Covid - 12 mai 2020
Afin de garder un trace (!) des débats qui enflamèrent l’opinion publique lors de la crise sanitaire du printemps 2020, voici une revue partielle d’articles parus dans la presse et quelques communications officielles autour de l’application Stop-Covid, entre discours réalistes et solutionnisme technologique (cette liste (...)
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UK finds itself almost alone with centralized virus contact-tracing app that probably won’t work well, asks for your location, may be illegal • The Register - 5 mai 2020
Herd immunity all over again
Comment Britain is sleepwalking into another coronavirus disaster by failing to listen to global consensus and expert analysis with the release of the NHS COVID-19 contact-tracking app.
On Monday, the UK government explained in depth and in clearly written language how its iOS and (...)
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Washington Post-University of Maryland poll finds a problem for Apple-Google coronavirus app - The Washington Post - 2 mai 2020
Nearly 3 in 5 Americans say they are either unable or unwilling to use the infection-alert system under development by Google and Apple, suggesting that it will be difficult to persuade enough people to use the app to make it effective against the coronavirus pandemic, a Washington Post-University of Maryland poll (...)
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Show evidence that apps for COVID-19 contact-tracing are secure and effective - 1er mai 2020
Governments see coronavirus apps as key to releasing lockdowns. In exchange for people’s health data, they must promise to work together to develop the highest standards of safety and efficacy.
In the toolkit of strategies to stop the spread of SARS-CoV-2, more countries are reaching for smartphone apps. When (...)
