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Apple devices could be used as ID in future, company’s patents suggest
AppleID might be taken next level, with patents suggesting that Apple is looking to use its devices as an alternative to carrying around a passport or driving license.
Back to work? Not without a check-in app, immunity passport
To go anywhere in Singapore these days, Joni Sng needs mobile phone apps and other technologies – a QR code to enter shops, a digital map to see how crowded a mall or park is, and a tracker to show if she was near someone infected with the coronavirus.
Singapore rules out Apple, Google’s contact-tracing system
Singapore said it won’t use a contact-tracing system jointly developed by Apple Inc and Google to fight the coronavirus, opting instead for its own domestic technology.
Estonia starts testing digital immunity passport for workplaces
Estonia has started to test one of the world's first digital immunity passports, seeking a safer return to workplaces following the coronavirus lockdown.
The race to deploy Covid-19 contact tracing apps
Technologists and health officials around the world are racing to develop smartphone apps to trace who has been in contact with carriers of the novel coronavirus.
Refugees take Germany to court over mobile phone data checks
Three refugees from Syria, Afghanistan and Cameroon are suing the German state for accessing personal data on their mobile phones, arguing it was an unnecessary invasion of privacy, their lawyer said on May 5.
Love during lockdown: Singles in US reinvent dating
How do you find love when you're stuck at home? The coronavirus pandemic has made that challenging, to say the least. But millions of single Americans are finding ways.
Debate swirls on use of virus 'immunity passports'
Governments and organisations around the world are mulling the use of hotly-debated "immunity passports" aimed at easing pandemic-related lockdowns and restrictions on movements.
US lawmakers warn coronavirus contact-tracing is ripe for abusive surveillance
It is a big promise from Silicon Valley to a nation looking for ways to be freed from home confinement: Smartphones could discreetly detect those who may have Covid-19 and nudge them to quarantine, blunting renewed outbreaks as Americans start to once again venture out.
Lovers in lockdown: How dating services want to keep us all swiping
Has the pandemic hit pause on real-world dating — or just brought it online for a while?