Alberta Contact Tracing App

• Alberta engineer suggests province adopt federal COVID-19 contact tracing app

  An Alberta engineer argues the province would be better off adopting the federal COVID-19 contact tracing app rather than continuing with their own.

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  Mar 20, 2021
  
• ‘Star Trek’ actor William Shatner urges Alberta to adopt federal COVID-19 app

  Capt. James T. Kirk of the Starship Enterprise, in violation of Starfleet's Prime Directive, is questioning the intelligence of Alberta-based life forms over their COVID-19 contact tracing app.

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  Dec 2, 2020
  
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• Kenney says federal government told Apple, Google not to work with Alberta on contact tracing apps

  The ABTraceTogether app was launched May 1, by the province and Alberta Health Services, and uses Bluetooth to more accurately and efficiently identify contacts of a confirmed COVID-19 case.

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  Jul 13, 2020
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• Privacy watchdogs raise concern over apps tracking Canadian coronavirus patients

  Known as contact tracing, the apps track those who the user comes in to contact with, commonly by monitoring a device's Bluetooth signal. Alberta is the first province to launch such an app.

  Health

  May 2, 2020