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A long wait for an app notification

A long wait for an app notification

Twenty-one months ago, I installed the Virginia Department of Health’s COVIDWISE app on my smartphone and urged everybody reading that post in Virginia to go and do likewise. Back in August of 2020, I expected that this app developed with the Apple-Google COVID-19 exposure notifications framework would soon be warning me that I’d been near somebody else who had tested positive and had then used…

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Weekly output: Ranking Digital Rights, COVID-19 exposure-notification apps, mass-media misinformation

Weekly output: Ranking Digital Rights, COVID-19 exposure-notification apps, mass-media misinformation

This week saw me wrap up writing for one large project that’s at least a few weeks away from publication. Still a good feeling to cross that off the to-do list. 2/24/2021:This new digital rights report flunks the tech giants, Fast Company Participating in a panel discussion in January that featured Ranking Digital Rights director Jessica Dheere reminded me that this group was working on its…

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Weekly output: exposure notification apps, Saudi dissidents exposed by Twitter breach, social platforms and politicians Facing yet another weekend with little to set itself apart from those before, I homebrewed a batch of beer Friday night.