Industry Keyword: Tracking

Around one and a half million Israelis have downloaded a smartphone app in the past week that alerts users who have crossed paths with a coronavirus patient, according to the Health Ministry, helping to improve tracking of the pandemic. The app "HaMagen" - Hebrew for The Shield - is sparking interest from abroad with approaches from Germany, Italy, Britain, Australia and Chile so far, ministry deputy director general Morris Dorfman said Wednesday.Under a ministry initiative, developers created the app using...

Amazon.com has launched an artificial intelligence-based tracking system to enforce social distancing at its offices and warehouses to help reduce any risk of contracting the new coronavirus among its workers. KEY POINTS: Amazon.com launches an artificial intelligence-based tracking system to enforce social distancing at its facilities The system, named Distance Assistant, uses camera footage to help identify high-traffic areas Amazon faces intensifying scrutiny from lawmakers and unions over whether it is doing enough to protect staff The unveiling comes as the...

When Facebook Inc reports first quarter earnings on Wednesday, investors will be preoccupied with how a new pop-up privacy notification on Apple's iPhones will affect the second quarter. A full-screen notification will begin to appear on iPhone apps on Monday that will ask users if they consent to being tracked "across apps and websites owned by other companies” for advertising purposes. Facebook faces up to a 7% decline in second quarter revenue if 80% of its users block the company from...

European scientists and technologists said they’d launch a joint initiative on Wednesday to support the use of digital applications in the fight against coronavirus while complying with the region's tough privacy laws. The Pan-European Privacy Preserving Proximity Tracing (PEPP-PT) brings together 130 researchers from eight countries to develop applications that can support contact tracing efforts within countries and across borders.Our goal is to provide a backbone for the digital core components of the global fight against COVID 19," said Hans-Christian...

Reuters - A million people a month are signing up for the San Francisco-based fitness-tracking social network app Strava, which now tracks activity trends of 48 million people in 195 countries, the company said in a report published on Wednesday.In the UK alone, 7.5 percent of adults are on Strava and data showed they cumulatively ran 308.5 million km and cycled 937.2 million km.Data also revealed that 5.8 percent of runners in the UK completed either a marathon or...

German Justice Minister Christine Lambrecht told Deutschlandfunk radio on Tuesday that tracking apps to help tackle coronavirus could only be used voluntarily in Germany, where people are deeply suspicious of digital surveillance. Germany’s approach to using digital tools for tackling the coronavirus pandemic highlights a fundamental tension faced by many countries worldwide: balancing public health needs with individual privacy rights. On Tuesday, German Justice Minister Christine Lambrecht emphasized this delicate balance in an interview with Deutschlandfunk radio, stating clearly that...

Google records what people are doing on hundreds of thousands of mobile apps even when they follow the company's recommended settings for stopping monitoring, a lawsuit seeking class action status has alleged. KEY POINTS: A lawsuit is alleging that Google records what people are doing on hundreds of thousands of apps even when the user has opted out The lawsuit alleges the data collection happens through Google's Firebase The lawsuit is the second filed in as many months against Google...

A group of European digital advertising associations has criticised Apple plans to require apps to seek additional permission from users before tracking them across other apps and websites. KEY POINTS: Advertising associations has criticised Apple plans to require apps to seek additional permission from users before tracking them Multiple marketing associations, some of which are backed by Facebook and Google, faulted Apple for not adhering to an ad-industry system Apple has disclosed features in its upcoming OS that will require...

Apple has now begun rolling out an update of its iOS operating system with new privacy controls designed to limit digital advertisers from tracking iPhone users. For Apple's more than 1 billion iPhone users, the change will mean a new pop-up notification in some apps seeking their permission to collect data that Apple believes could be used to track their browsing habits across third-party apps and websites. For businesses, the rules could bring seismic changes to the nearly $100 billion mobile...

Industry Overview The logistics industry is a vast network of companies and organisations that provide services related to the efficient movement of goods throughout the supply chain. Logistics involves planning, organising, and managing the complex process of moving materials from suppliers to customers. Logistics companies provide a wide range of services to ensure that products are delivered on time and in the proper condition. These services include warehousing, packaging, inventory management, transportation, tracking, and freight forwarding. Companies in the logistics industry have to be...

Data from millions of mobile phones shows varying behaviour across the United States in May as people responded to the loosening of stay-at-home orders, analysis from the news agency Reuters shows. KEY POINTSSafeGraph data shows folk stayed away from gyms, bars and religious institutions, but returned to gas stations and restaurantsFoot traffic at bars and pubs in mid-May was 60% less than in the first week of MarchVisits to elementary and secondary schools and colleges were down nearly 80% compared...