The Linux Foundation hopes open-source apps will play a key role in tracing exposure to diseases like COVID-19 while being fully transparent.
Assemblyperson Ron Kim has proposed a decentralized contact tracing protocol and a blockchain-based public banking system for New Yorkers.
Austria's economic affairs ministry awarded a $67,600 grant to a project called QualiSig, which uses the Ardor blockchain to verify COVID-19 testing.
The world is awash in COVID-19 contact tracing apps but few seem to be delivering on their promises.
Comments from Minnesota Public Safety commissioner John Harrington comparing law enforcement to contact tracing alerted privacy activists to the dangers of misusing COVID-19 health data.
A member of the Hyperledger Identity Working Group on how we can keep track of COVID-19 without giving up our digital rights.
Blockchain-based solutions can add value in solving COVID-19 driven problems, says our columnist. But only if people choose to use them.
How do you make it so people actually want to download a contact tracing app?
Contact tracing researchers fear Europe could choose a centralized system that puts personal privacy at risk.
EU researchers are concerned after their proposal for a decentralized contact tracing system was rejected without explanation.
European researchers are looking for ways to track the spread of coronavirus while respecting privacy rights.