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UArizona has stayed opened throughout the pandemic with the help of an app
January 12, 2021
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'Covid Watch Arizona' app helping fight coronavirus at University of Arizona
December 20, 2020
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UArizona says contact tracing app has reduced coronavirus cases by 12%
December 19, 2020
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U. Arizona claims contact-tracing app reduced COVID-19 by 12%
December 18, 2020
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Privacy watchdog backs WeHealth app
December 16, 2020
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How a Smartphone App and Contact Tracing Helped Keep UArizona Open and Curb COVID-19 Spread
December 16, 2020
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Bermuda’s New COVID-19 Exposure Notification App
December 11, 2020
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How U Arizona Uses Data to Stay on Top of COVID-19
December 10, 2020
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Making the Invisible Visible – Assessing Risk in a Pandemic
December 10, 2020
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How Arizona universities are riding the waves of coronavirus
November 30, 2020
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How Arizona universities are riding the waves of COVID-19
November 27, 2020
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The Digital Pandemic Interviews Tina White
November 4, 2020
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An App Specifically Designed For The Island
October 28, 2020
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Digital Contact Tracing and Alerting vs Exposure Notification
October 9, 2020
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New COVID App Gives Health Officials Dials to Send Tailored Alerts
October 5, 2020
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UA COVID Watch app is now on 30,000 devices
September 28, 2020
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Contact Tracing Apps Struggle to Be Both Effective and Private
September 24, 2020
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Higher Ed Institutions Grapple With Public Health Implications of In-Person Instruction
September 22, 2020
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New Crop of Covid-Tracking Apps Addresses Old Concerns
September 19, 2020
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Quantifying SARS-CoV-2 infection risk within the Google/Apple exposure notification framework to inform quarantine recommendations
September 17, 2020
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Different Approaches To Covid-19 Data Reporting Points Universities Down Different Paths
September 17, 2020
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NAU Launches Covid Watch App
September 16, 2020
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Thousands of UArizona students, staff turn to app and program to stay safe from COVID-19
September 10, 2020
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How The University Of Arizona Is Handling COVID-19 On Campus
September 6, 2020
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How (Not) to Fight COVID-19
September 3, 2020
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How Apple's new COVID-19 contact tracing process works
September 2, 2020
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Shipping Logs: Covid Watch by Jesse Colligan
September 1, 2020
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Arizona universities both trust in their COVID-19 safety protocols
September 1, 2020
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Arizona Universities Test COVID-19 Smartphone App
August 31, 2020
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COVID-19 virus tracking apps are here – are they safe to download?
August 28, 2020
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Bermuda Government press conference on Covid-19
August 27, 2020
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Contact tracing through Bluetooth and WiFi: Should college students be concerned?
August 27, 2020
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COVID-19 tracking apps, supported by Apple and Google, begin showing up in app stores
August 26, 2020
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Smartphone app alerts University of Arizona students if they are exposed to COVID-19
August 25, 2020
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How the University of Arizona is following the science to safely reopen in person
August 25, 2020
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How one university plans to contain coronavirus outbreaks
August 24, 2020
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UA Launches 'Covid Watch' Virus Notification App
August 19, 2020
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UArizona releases COVID tracking app
August 19, 2020
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New smartphone app tracks users' exposure to COVID-19
August 19, 2020
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UA launches Covid Watch Arizona app
August 19, 2020
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How a new app is going to help keep UArizona students safe during pandemic
August 19, 2020
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UArizona is launching a new mobile app that lets students know anonymously if they have been exposed to COVID-19
August 19, 2020
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Contact tracing apps have been a bust. States bet college kids can change that.
August 19, 2020
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UA Launches 'Covid Watch' Virus Notification App
August 19, 2020
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Arizona and Covid Watch launch exposure notification app to track COVID-19
August 19, 2020
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Reopening Safer: Arizona Illustrated
August 3, 2020
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Linux Foundation Launches Open Source COVID Group
July 29, 2020
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UArizona testing anonymous app that notifies people exposed to COVID-19
July 24, 2020
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Getting Answers: Contact tracing apps coming to Arizona?
July 24, 2020
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University Of Arizona Alum Develops Confidential Contact Tracing App
July 22, 2020
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Linux Foundation Public Health projects first focused on Google-Apple Exposure Notification API
July 20, 2020
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Canadian student helps create app that notifies users of potential exposure to COVID-19
July 22, 2020
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Tech Leaders and Health Authorities from Around the Globe Collaborate to Combat COVID-19
July 20, 2020
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There's an app for that: Universities, profs develop modern tools to trace COVID-19
July 9, 2020
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Contact-tracing apps stall in a vicious 'catch-22'
July 8, 2020
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UArizona team testing app that will notify those exposed to COVID-19
July 6, 2020
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UArizona team testing app that will notify those exposed to COVID-19
July 3, 2020
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How Does Contact Tracing Work?
June 29, 2020
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America Is Reopening. Coronavirus TracingApps Aren’t Ready.
June 22, 2020
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Testing Covid Watch on the Pacific Crest Trail
June 20, 2020
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Better contact tracing, cleaner dorms expected at UA when classes resume
June 19, 2020
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Campus reentry update: University of Arizona begins testing phase for new contact tracing app
June 18, 2020
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Coronavirus in Arizona: Record-high 2,519 new cases reported on Thursday
June 18, 2020
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UArizona Testing App to Alert Students, Employees Exposed to COVID-19
June 18, 2020
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Neil deGrasse Tyson and Sophia the Robot Explore COVID-19 and Artificial Intelligence
June 16, 2020
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Most Americans say 'No' to coronavirus contact tracing apps
June 16, 2020
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Decentralization: Preserving Personal Privacy While Fighting COVID-19
June 7, 2020
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Demonstrating 15 contact tracing and other tools built to mitigate the impact of COVID-19
June 5, 2020
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Decentralized exposure alert protocols for protecting communities from COVID-19
May 28, 2020
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UA testing app to trace COVID-19 cases on campus
May 28, 2020
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Online apps likely to play a big role in rebooting UA campus for fall semester
May 27, 2020
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Could Apple and Google's joint venture using Bluetooth be a gamechanger against COVID-19?
May 24, 2020
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A woman of influence: Tina White tracks Covid-19 while preserving privacy
May 22, 2020
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CA Senator Steve Glazer Town Hall: Warning Tools for COVID Exposure
May 22, 2020
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Americans' perceptions of privacy and surveillance in the COVID-19 Pandemic
May 22, 2020
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Coronavirus Contact-Tracing Apps Face Another Challenge: Designing a Great User Experience
May 20, 2020
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Emergent Ventures prize winners, third cohort
May 18, 2020
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Startups Quickly Roll Out Contact-Tracing Apps, But Business Prospects Are Unclear
May 14, 2020
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Editorial: Use all weapons against virus
May 11, 2020
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Sophia the Robot Interviews Tina White about COVID-19 and AI
May 7, 2020
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Emergent Ventures singles out the Covid Watch app forrapid response to the coronavirus crisis
May 7, 2020
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This App Protects Privacy While Tracing Covid-19 Infections
May 6, 2020
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More users needed: Lessons from Alberta's coronavirus contact tracing app
May 6, 2020
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Governments should give legal incentives for decentralized Covid apps
May 5, 2020
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Here come COVID-19 tracing apps - and privacy trade-offs
May 5, 2020
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Apple and Google prohibit location tracking in new contact tracing guidelines
May 4, 2020
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The Role of Technology in Stopping the Spread of Covid-19
April 30, 2020
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Shut down and reboot—preparing to minimise infection in a post-COVID-19 era
April 28, 2020
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Apple, Google plan to release contact-tracing tool this week
April 28, 2020
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Apps to Track the New Coronavirus Have an Old Problem: Getting the Downloads
April 28, 2020
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Understanding Digital Contact Tracing: Limitations, Implications and Recommendations
April 27, 2020
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Latest weapon in tracing and tracking coronavirus infections: your smartphone
April 23, 2020
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UW and Microsoft release contact-tracing app, aiming to battle COVID-19 while preserving privacy
April 22, 2020
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Bluetooth-based contact tracing earns high marks on privacy. But will it work?
April 19, 2020
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Governments likely to defer to Big Tech on Covid-19 contact tracing
April 18, 2020
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Does Covid-19 Contact Tracing Pose a Privacy Risk? Your Questions, Answered
April 17, 2020
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ACLU White Paper — Principles For Technology-Assisted Contact-Tracing
April 16, 2020
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How Bluetooth could unleash the world’s largest experiment in digital contact tracing
April 16, 2020
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How Coronavirus Could Test California’s Commitment to Privacy
April 15, 2020
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Meet the Stanford researchers mobilizing to understand, fight COVID-19
April 14, 2020
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The importance of Apple and Google’s rare collaboration on contact tracing
April 13, 2020
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What privacy-preserving coronavirus tracing apps need to succeed
April 13, 2020
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Covid Watch Celebrates Apple and Google’s COVID-19Contact Tracing Announcement
April 10, 2020
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How Apple and Google Are Enabling Covid-19 Contact-Tracing
April 10, 2020
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Stanford researchers help develop privacy-focused coronavirus alert app
April 9, 2020
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Johns Hopkins Review of Mobile Application Technology toEnhance Contact Tracing Capacity for COVID-19
April 8, 2020
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Clever Cryptography Could Protect Privacy in Covid-19 Contact-Tracing Apps
April 8, 2020
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Behind the global efforts to make a privacy-first coronavirus tracking app
April 7, 2020
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US and Europe race to develop ‘contact tracing’ apps
April 3, 2020
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Surveillance, AI, and saving lives top agenda at coronavirus conference
April 2, 2020
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A Mobile App Intervention To Slow COVID-19 Using Crowdsourced Data
April 1, 2020
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Fellow Working to Devise COVID-19 Alert Application
March 31, 2020
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One victim of COVID-19 pandemic may be privacy rights
March 29, 2020
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Coronavirus Updates | Tracking COVID-19 with an App? w/ Tina White
March 13, 2020
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