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.

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...