Here’s what you need to know about the U.K. government’s contact tracing app—how it works, whether it’s safe, and whether you should use it.

The British government rolled out a contact-tracing app on the Isle of Wight as the first step in a new national approach to stem the spread of the new coronavirus.

The U.K’s National Health Service will go it alone in creating a contact-tracing app, rejecting the “privacy-preserving” API jointly developed by Apple and Google. Earlier this month ...

The U.K.’s coronavirus tracing program was hit by technical problems on the day of its launch, with some health-care workers unable to log-on to the system.

The U.K. will use Apple and Google’s jointly developed technology for its coronavirus contact-tracing app because Apple won’t change its system to allow the government’s app to work ...

Palantir Technologies Inc. is in talks with the U.K. government to provide support for contact tracing of Covid-19 cases, according to people familiar with the discussions. Technology from the ...

Research that shows super spreaders are causing up to 80 per cent of COVID-19 infections means contact tracing should focus more on how a person got the virus than who they might have given it to.

The National Health Service (NHS) might allow the U.K. government to use its contact-tracing app — meant to curb the spread of COVID-19 — to identify people from their smartphones, ...