Science Magazine Provides an Overview of the Privacy Issues about a COVID MAPPING APP, development by companies to data, the concepts and privacy issues involved and why having an APP like this matters

Oxford University Scientists asked from a mathematical point of view, it is possible to stop the epidemic and concluded that the epidemic can be stopped if contact tracing is sufficiently fast, sufficiently efficient, and happens at scale.

Germany dumps the idea of centralised contact tracing database and prefers Apple – Google approach of decentralisation.

Facebook and Carnegie Mellon University launches COVID-19 data maps for the US and will take its symptom tracking efforts worldwide

Digital Contact Tracing is a vital tool to revive life back to normal. But there are some practical and privacy challenges that need to be addressed.