Media Mentions
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- The National Interest (1/18/2021): How to Leverage Technology Against America’s Coronavirus Crisis
- Trib LIVE (12/23/2020): Editorial: Never too late for covid investigation tools
- MIT CSAIL Alliances YouTube (12/14/2020): Public Health v. Privacy: The Technology of Contact Tracing
- Loop News (12/10/2020): St Lucia to launch contact tracing app that logs user location data
- MarketScreener (12/10/2020): A Year in Review: Raytheon Technologies in 2020
- TechNewsWorld (12/8/2020): Contact-Tracing Apps Flop in the US
- The New York Times (12/7/2020): Coronavirus Apps Show Promise but Prove a Tough Sell
- Jacobin (10/29/2020): Emails Show Trump’s CDC Went MIA in Pennsylvania When COVID-19 Hit
- My Tech Mag (10/29/2020): 10 MIT-IBM Watson AI Lab Funded Projects to Fight Against COVID-19
- Pennsylvania Pressroom (10/19/2020): Wolf Administration: Join The More Than 322,000 Pennsylvanians Who Added Their Phone To The Fight By Downloading The COVID Alert PA App
- Wired (10/16/2020): Bluetooth bugs are making contact tracing apps spit out tons of errors
- Courier Times (10/19/2020): Levine: Fall resurgence of COVID continues in Pa. as cases rise
- LeadingAge NY (10/6/2020): New York Launches COVID Alert NY Exposure App
- PA Gov (10/2/2020): Gov. Wolf: Pennsylvanians Can Now Use COVID Alert PA App When Traveling to NY, NJ, DE
- WGRZ (10/1/2020): Cybersecurity experts weigh in on new COVID Alert NY app
- IEEE Spectrum (9/24/2020): Contact Tracing Apps Struggle to Be Both Effective and Private
- ComputerWeekly.com (9/24/2020): State of Pennsylvania launches contact-tracing app
- WITF (9/24/2020): How Pennsylvania’s COVID-19 alert apps work
- Connect FM, WCED-FM (9/24/2020): COVID Alert PA voluntary, anonymous contact-tracing app launched in PA
- Commonwealth of Pennsylvania (9/23/2020): 50,000 Pennsylvanians Download COVID Alert PA App in first 24 Hours, Governor Urges Everyone to Make Your Phone Part of the Fight
- Governing (9/23/2020): Pennsylvania: Add Phones to the Fight and Download COVID App
- WMFJ (9/23/2020): 50,000 Pennsylvanians Download COVID Alert PA App in first 24 Hours
- Commonwealth of Pennsylvania (9/22/2020): Wolf Administration Launches COVID Alert PA App, Encourage PA to Unite to Stop the Spread
- Pennsylvania Department of Health (9/22/2020): Announcing Pennsylvania’s COVID Alert App
- MyBroadband (9/18/2020): This is how the COVID-19 Alert South Africa app works
- IEEE Spectrum (9/8/2020): Can AI Make Bluetooth Contact Tracing Better?
- EIN Presswire (8/19/2020): Department of Health Pilots COVID-19 Exposure Notification Mobile App to Strengthen Contact Tracing and Mitigation Efforts
- YourErie (8/19/2020): Department of Health pilots COVID-19 exposure notification mobile app
- State Dot News (8/19/2020): Department of Health Pilots COVID-19 Exposure Notification Mobile App to Strengthen Contact Tracing and Mitigation Efforts
- LevitTownNow (8/19/2020): COVID-19 Exposure-Notification App Being Developed For PA
- Pocono Record (8/18/2020): COVID Alert PA app set for September release
- CNet (8/8/2020): COVID-19 contact tracing apps create privacy pitfalls around the world
- The Lancet (8/1/2020): Can digital contact tracing make up for lost time?
- GermanMarshallFund YouTube (7/29/2020): The Promise and Pitfalls of Contact Tracing Apps
- MyBroadband (7/24/2020): Government considers contact tracing app for South Africa
- Techwire (7/21/2020): Higher Education Needs Data-Driven Contact Tracing to Reopen
- Stemnova YouTube (7/15/2020): Stemnova: Explore COVID-19 – Session 3
- MyBroadBand (7/10/2020): No, Google and Apple have not installed a COVID-19 tracing app on your phone
- Boston University (7/7/2020): Balancing Privacy Rights and Public Health
- The Guardian (7/7/2020): Slowing spread of COVID-19 with contact tracing apps
- Head Topics Nigeria (7/7/2020): Slowing spread of COVID-19 with contact tracing apps
- Modern Materials Handling (7/1/2020): Other Voices: Mobile robots in the time of Coronavirus
- Medium (6/30/2020): A Basic Guide to Contact Tracing
- Red Hat Research (6/26/2020): PACT: Private Automated Contact Tracing
- Fortune (6/17/2020): Are contact-tracing apps a scourge or savior?
- MIT Technology Review (6/16/2020): Contact tracing without Big Brother
- ExecutiveBiz (6/16/2020): Raytheon Technologies Joins Global Effort to Develop Contact-Tracing App for COVID-19 Patients
- Raytheon (6/15/2020): A coalition of the willing
Developing a contact tracing app that keeps personal data private - The Guardian (6/11/2020): Slowing spread of COVID-19 with contact tracing apps
- PR Newswire (6/9/2020): Application by ClinIQ Supporting Safer Air Travel Amidst COVID-19
- U.S. News (6/8/2020): Problems Follow India’s Virus Tracing App
- Neue Zürcher Zeitung (6/6/2020): Kann eine App die Corona-Pandemie stoppen? Mit dieser Frage beginnt eine für die Schweizer Wissenschaft aussergewöhnliche Erfolgsgeschichte
- Vietnam Times (6/5/2020): Smart coronavirus contact tracing apps bring hopes to the world
- Telefonica (6/3/2020): The Security behind Apple’s and Google’s API for Tracing COVID-19 Infections
- USAGag (6/2/2020): Contact Tracing: Laying The Foundation For Real-Time Social Tracking
- Strategic Finance (6/1/2020): Tracing the Virus with Bluetooth
- Foundation for Economic Education (6/1/2020): Contact Tracing: Laying the Foundation for Real-Time Social Tracking
- KCBA Blog (6/1/2020): 6-1-2020; IL Medical Care Providers Cannot “Lien” An IL Worker’s Claim or Settlement To Recover Unpaid Medical Bills; Contact Tracking Apps May Be Inexorably Coming to the U.S. and World Workplace
- Ryadel (5/31/2020): Digital Contact Tracing Apps: all known protocols
- Daily Camera (5/30/2020): Dave Taylor: How does smartphone contact tracing work?
- Mail & Guardian (5/29/2020): 5G technology is the future
- MIT Technology Review (5/27/2020): What Digital Contact Tracing Means for Privacy
- Jama (5/27/2020): Digital Smartphone Tracking for COVID-19 Public Health and Civil Liberties in Tension
- All About Circuits (5/22/2020): The Watson AI Lab Funds 10 COVID-19 Research Projects
- Forbes (5/21/2020): Tech Giants Like Apple, Experian, And Google Fight Pandemic With Digital Tools
- Medium (5/21/2020): Digital Contact Tracing 101
- Discover Magazine (5/21/2020): How Will COVID-19 Contact Tracing Apps Work in the U.S.?
- OpenSource (5/20/2020): Questions we should ask about COVID-19 contact-tracing apps
- Android Police (5/20/2020): Apple and Google roll out COVID-19 exposure notifications through public health apps
- MIT News (5/19/2020): Marshaling artificial intelligence in the fight against Covid-19
- Nature (5/19/2020): Coronavirus contact-tracing apps: can they slow the spread of COVID-19?
- Federal Labs (5/18/2020): Apple, Google join Lincoln Lab’s COVID-19 contact tracing effort
- VentureBeat (5/18/2020): How Congress is shaping data privacy laws during the pandemic
- Sentinel Source (5/14/2020): States see contact tracing with cellphones as key to reopening economies
- NPR (5/13/2020): Apple, Google In Conflict With States Over Contact-Tracing Tech
- IEEE Spectrum (5/13/2020): COVID-19 Digital Contact Tracing: Apple and Google Work Together as MIT Tests Validity
- WABE (5/13/2020): Apple, Google Coronavirus Tech Won’t Track Your Location. That Worries Some States.
- Government Technology (5/13/2020): States See Benefits of Cellphone-Based Contact Tracing
- Roll Call (5/12/2020): States see contact tracing with cellphones as key to reopening economies
- NNN (5/12/2020): U.S. governors see contact-tracing with cellphones as key to reopening economies
- Android Police (5/8/2020): Here’s what you need to know about Apple and Google’s COVID-tracking tool
- NewTV (5/8/2020): Innovation Showcase – PACT: Private Automated Contact Tracing
- Science Friday (5/8/2020): How Do We Build Trust Into Contact Tracing?
- VOA (5/8/2020): Tak Mudah Membuka Kembali Ekonomi Tanpa “Contact Tracing”
- IAPP (5/7/2020): Contact tracing apps: Why tech solutionism and privacy by design are not enough
- WMTV (5/6/2020): Here come COVID-19 tracing apps — and privacy trade-offs
- Bank Info Security (5/6/2020): Digital Contact-Tracing Apps Must Win Hearts and Minds
- PBS News Hour (5/5/2020): How contact tracing can help the U.S. get control over coronavirus
- FireEye (5/5/2020): The Security and Privacy Implications of COVID-19 Location Data Apps
- Protocol (5/5/2020): Companies’ next moral crisis: How to track employees without invading their privacy
- Computer Weekly (5/5/2020): Building security and privacy into contact-tracing apps
- Knowing Everything (5/5/2020): Apple and Google prohibit location tracking in new contact tracing guidelines
- National Cyber Security Centre (5/4/2020): The security behind the NHS contact tracing app
- CPO Magazine (5/4/2020): MIT Researchers Develop a COVID-19 Contact Tracing App That Preserves Privacy Using Random IDs
- Norton LifeLock (5/4/2020): The Privacy Challenges of Digital Contact Tracing
- All About Circuits (5/2/2020): Governments and Tech Giants Face-Off on Contact Tracing: Centralized or Decentralized Data Storage?
- Patently Apple (5/1/2020): CDC Posts new Contact Tracing Document that opens the door for the Apple-Google approach
- Axios (4/30/2020): Contact tracing is the next big hurdle in the push to re-open cities
- New York Times (4/29/2020): A Scramble for Virus Apps That Do No Harm
- Medium (4/29/2020): Contact Tracing Technologies: Methods and Trade-offs
- Digital Trends (4/29/2020): Apple and Google betas give first look at contact-tracing API
- CDC (4/28/2020): Preliminary Criteria for the Evaluation of Digital Contact Tracing Tools for COVID-19
- EFF (4/28/2020): Apple and Google’s COVID-19 Exposure Notification API: Questions and Answers
- CNBC (4/28/2020): How a handful of Apple and Google employees came together to help health officials trace coronavirus
- Voice of America (4/28/2020): Smartphone App Warns If You’ve Been Exposed to Coronavirus
- WHDH (4/27/2020): MIT working on contact tracing app to track coronavirus
- Reclaim the Net (4/27/2020): Poll suggests majority of people support big tech contact tracing
- Bank Info Security (4/27/2020): Contact-Tracing App Privacy: Apple, Google Refuse to Budge
- Boston Herald (4/26/2020): MIT team races to perfect cellphone tracing of coronavirus
- CNET (4/24/2020): Apple and Google’s coronavirus tracking tool: How privacy fits in
- MIT Technology Review (4/23/2020): Bluetooth contact tracing needs bigger, better data
- The Medical Futurist (4/23/2020): Your Data Privacy During a Pandemic
- Markets Insider (4/23/2020): OISTE.ORG Foundation endorses preserving the human right to privacy statement during the Covid-19 pandemic signed by a group of more than 300 academics and experts on the human right to privacy
- Federal Labs (4/22/2020): COVID-19 contact-tracing system seeks data-collection assistance
- Mozilla (4/22/2020): Privacy Norms and the Pandemic
- GeekWire (4/22/2020): UW and Microsoft release contact-tracing app, aiming to battle COVID-19 while preserving privacy
- Futurity (4/22/2020): COVID-19 CONTACT TRACING APP USES BLUETOOTH ‘GARBAGE’
- Lawfare Blog (4/21/2020): In “Paper Hearing,” Experts Debate Digital Contact Tracing and Coronavirus Privacy Concerns
- Government technology (4/21/2020): MIT, Apple, Google Build Apps to Trace COVID-19 Contact
- Ledger Insights(4/21/2020): EU parliament demands COVID-19 contact tracing be decentralized. Academics concerned re privacy
- The New England Council (4/20/2020): April 20 Daily Round-Up: NEC Members Contribute to COVID-19 Crisis Response
- CBS News (4/19/2020): On the trail of COVID-19: Contact tracing the virus
- TechCrunch (4/18/2020): What is contact tracing?
- Hunch.net (4/18/2020): Critical issues in digital contract tracing
- RollCall (4/17/2020): ACLU sees stronger privacy safeguards in COVID-19 tracking apps
- Mobihealthnews (4/17/2020): At COVID-19 ‘paper hearing,’ industry, government struggle with balancing privacy, public health
- OutbreakNews Today (4/17/2020): COVID-19: Contact tracing smartphone app warns of exposure while protecting privacy
- Eurasia Review (4/17/2020): Contact Tracing App Warns Of COVID-19 Exposure While Protecting Privacy
- WCVB 5 (4/16/2020): MIT scientists working to track spread of coronavirus through cellphones
- WCVB 5 YouTube (4/16/2020): MIT scientists working to track spread of coronavirus through cellphones
- MSN (4/16/2020): Local scientists working to track spread of coronavirus through cellphones
- Boston Globe (4/16/2020): MIT leads global push for phone-based COVID-19 trackers
- Brown (4/16/2020): Conversations on COVID: Tracing contacts while preserving privacy
- Mirage News (4/16/2020): Contact Tracing App Warns of COVID-19 Exposure While Protecting Privacy
- HACKADAY (4/16/2020): GOOGLE AND APPLE REVEAL THEIR CORONAVIRUS CONTACT TRACING PLANS: WE KICK THE TIRES
- EurekAlert (4/16/2020): Contact tracing app warns of COVID-19 exposure while protecting privacy
- Axios (4/16/2020): The EU’s coronavirus contact tracing guidelines
- Tech Xplore (4/16/2020): Contact tracing app warns of COVID-19 exposure while protecting privacy
- Harvard Business Review (4/15/2020): How Digital Contact Tracing Slowed Covid-19 in East Asia
- News24 (4/15/2020): Smartphone apps might track and slow spread of coronavirus
- Analytics India Mag (4/15/2020): HOW BLUETOOTH AND DATA ANALYTICS ARE LEADING CONTACT TRACING FOR COVID-19
- The Sacramento Bee (4/15/2020): Your phone could soon warn you if you’ve come close to someone with COVID-19
- The Charlotte Observer (4/15/2020): Your phone could soon warn you if you’ve come close to someone with COVID-19
- Analytics India Mag (4/15/2020): AAROGYA SETU & OTHER APPS: HOW BLUETOOTH AND DATA ANALYTICS LEAD CONTACT TRACING FOR COVID-19
- Networkworld (4/15/2020): Contact tracing via Bluetooth could help track COVID-19 transmission
- Miami Herald (4/15/2020): Your phone could soon warn you if you’ve come close to someone with COVID-19
- NPR (4/14/2020): Getting Back To Normal: Big Tech’s Solution Depends On Public Trust
- KCLU (4/14/2020): Getting Back To Normal: Big Tech’s Solution Depends On Public Trust
- News 18 (4/14/2020): Covid-19 Contact Tracing Apps: Is Your Privacy the Wrong Concern to Have Right Now?
- Inverse (4/14/2020): Inverse Daily: The future of voting, age-reversing exercise, a violent origin story for ‘Oumuamua
- TechNewsWorld (4/14/2020): Contact Tracing Phone Apps: Health vs. Privacy
- Politico (4/13/2020): Tech rivals team up during pandemic
- Security Boulevard (4/13/2020): Contact Tracing COVID-19 Infections via Smartphone Apps
- Tech Crunch (4/13/2020): Q&A: Apple and Google discuss their coronavirus tracing efforts
- GovInfo Security (4/13/2020): Coronavirus: UK Government Promises App for Contact Tracing
- InfoQ (4/12/2020): Google and Apple Jointly Working on Contact Tracing for iOS and Android
- TrialSite News (4/11/2020): MIT PACT Initiates Bluetooth & Smartphone Tech to Enable Anonymous COVID-19 Contact Tracing
- Medium (4/11/2020): Apple and Google are building coronavirus tracking tech into iOS and Android
- WGBH (4/10/2020): Coming Soon: Tracking The Spread Of COVID-19 With Smartphones
- Lawfare (4/10/2020): Looking Beyond Contact Tracing to Stop the Spread
- NPR (4/10/2020): Apple And Google Build Smartphone Tool To Track COVID-19
- Financial Express (4/10/2020): MIT develops privacy-preserving system for anonymous contact tracing of COVID-19 patients
- Techsaa (4/10/2020): Google and Apple are developing a coronavirus tracking app into Android and iOS
- Engadget, China (4/10/2020): MIT develops anonymous tracking of contacts to assist in the prevention and treatment of coronavirus
- ABC14 News (4/10/2020): Apple And Google To Launch Coronavirus Contact-Tracing Software On Billions Of Cell Phones
- Futura Tech (4/10/2020): Covid-19 : pourquoi la fonction « Localiser » d’Apple intéresse les développeurs d’applications
- Analytics Insight (4/10/2020): TECHNOLOGIES USED TO DEAL WITH CORONAVIRUS OUTBREAK
- Washington Post (4/9/2020): The Technology 202: MIT researchers unveil effort to trace spread of the coronavirus
- Engadget (4/9/2020): MIT is working on a way to track COVID-19 while protecting privacy
- Wbur (4/9/2020): MIT Researchers Developing App To Notify People If They’ve Been Near Someone With COVID-19
- Fast Company (4/9/2020): MIT has an ambitious plan to detect if you’ve been exposed to the coronavirus
- TechCrunch (4/9/2020): MIT develops privacy-preserving COVID-19 contact tracing inspired by Apple’s ‘Find My’ feature
- Venturebeat (4/9/2020): Can a coronavirus tracking app be both effective and privacy-centric?
- Federal Labs (4/9/2020): Lincoln Lab team designing system for COVID-19 contact tracing
- NationEditions (4/9/2020): Coronavirus Application Could Follow Your Contacts Without Relinquishing Your Security
- Inverse (4/9/2020): YOUR PHONE COULD HOLD THE KEY TO UNLOCKING A WIN OVER COVID-19 — MIT STUDY
- Medicine Net (4/9/2020): Smartphone Apps Might Track, Slow Spread of COVID-19
- MIT News (4/8/2020): Bluetooth signals from your smartphone could automate Covid-19 contact tracing while preserving privacy
- Venturebeat (4/8/2020): MIT announces Bluetooth breakthrough in coronavirus-tracing app for Android and iOS
- Cnet (4/8/2020): Coronavirus app could trace your contacts without sacrificing your privacy