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Researchers analyzed Facebook-based mobility data and found that travelers from UK may have spread the new SARS-CoV-2 strain that originated in the UK to at least 16 countries by the beginning of December 2020.

WhatsApp has explained in detail as to what information is not shared with Facebook.

Published: January 12, 2021 11:56 AM IST The company in an earlier blog post stated that it cant see its users private messages or listen to their calls. (Image: BGR India) Last week, WhatsApp published its updated privacy policies and it sent the entire world into a panic, especially those obsessed with security. The company announced it would pass on certain kinds of user data to Facebook in order to improve the experiences. ...

Researchers tested their prediction model against three well-documented COVID-19 outbreaks.

Date Time GPS data could help map COVID-19 transmission risk The study found de-identified GPS data could be used to identify areas with heightened COVID-19 transmission risk. Human mobility data gathered from de-identified mobile devices could help map coronavirus (COVID-19) transmission and support contact tracing efforts, according to new research. The Australian research, published today in Journal of the Royal Society Interface, analysed the Cedar Meats outbreak in Melbourne, the Crossroad...

Diem and the economy January 3, 2021 The Facebook Diem is a cryptocurrency that Facebook announced on June 18, 2019. The project was announced by CEO Mark Zuckerberg, but its creators are actually Morgan Beller (staff at Facebook blockchain division), David Marcus and Kevin Weil (Novi’s Vice President of product). The original plan for the proposed cryptocurrency was to create a stable coin that would be backed by a basket of assets (currencies like the Euro, Singapore dollar, US dollar, Po...

ISLAMABAD: As the Covid-19 pandemic has disrupted life for many, including children in need of routine immunisation, Unicef Pakistan and Facebook have launched a campaign to promote life-saving immunisation. In countries like Pakistan, additional roadblocks as a result of the pandemic have been compounded by an existing hesitancy in some communities to vaccinate children as well as global disruptions to the delivery of immunisations. For this reason, Facebook’s Data for Good team recently w...

ISLAMABAD: As the Covid-19 pandemic has disrupted life for many, including children in need of routine immunizations, Unicef Pakistan and Facebook have launched a campaign to promote life-saving immunization. In countries like Pakistan, additional roadblocks as a result of the pandemic have been compounded by an existing hesitancy in some communities to vaccinate children as well as global disruptions to the delivery of immunizations. For this reason, Facebook’s Data for Good team recently wo...

Share: In partnership with Facebook Data for Good, the Delphi Group at Carnegie Mellon University (CMU), the Joint Program on Survey Methodology at the University of Maryland (UMD), the Duke Margolis Center for Health Policy, and Resolve to Save Lives, an initiative of Vital Strategies Catalyst @ Health 2.0, the industry leader in digital health strategic partnering, announced today DeepOutbreak as the winner and The COVID-19 Symptom Data Challenge looked for novel analytic approaches that u...