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As the world fights coronavirus, there's a flood of covid-19 apps. Our project is tracking the apps that are tracking you.

New from @techreview: Why do contact tracing apps in Australia and France have such low notification rates? Millions of people, almost zero alerts. @charlottejee has the answer: part lower case rates, part lower penetration, part bad design/policy. technologyreview.com/2020/07/10/100…


Adding a database entry for Belgium—one of the early centers of the European outbreak—which is planning to launch a voluntary contact tracing app in September, and will be using the same platform as Germany. #changelog brusselstimes.com/all-news/belgi…

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Belgian contact tracing app will be ready in September

Belgian contact tracing app will be ready in September


We're adding an entry for the Philippines, where its Staysafe.ph app claims 1.26 million users. #changelog staysafe.ph This story says the app is going to be fully handed over to govt in August manilastandard.net/opinion/column…


Australia's CovidSafe app had a number of known bugs which meant it could only spot other phones 25% of the time—but the public wasn't informed. abc.net.au/news/science/2…


A look inside the project to build a contact tracing app in the UK—which was supposed to launch in mid-May—from @TBIJ. The results of a pilot program haven't yet been released; the govt has changed direction at significant expense. thebureauinvestigates.com/stories/2020-0…

MITTRtracker's tweet image. A look inside the project to build a contact tracing app in the UK—which was supposed to launch in mid-May—from @TBIJ. The results of a pilot program haven't yet been released; the govt has changed direction at significant expense.  thebureauinvestigates.com/stories/2020-0…

.@hughlangley and @aaronpholmes asked every US state what was happening with contact tracing apps: businessinsider.com/apple-google-c… they largely confirmed what we found for our US database—not a lot happening so far and some states ruling it out entirely technologyreview.com/2020/06/02/100…

MITTRtracker's tweet image. .@hughlangley and @aaronpholmes asked every US state what was happening with contact tracing apps: 
businessinsider.com/apple-google-c… 
they largely confirmed what we found for our US database—not a lot happening so far and some states ruling it out entirely
technologyreview.com/2020/06/02/100…

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