As the US and other hard-hit countries across the globe begin to reopen after COVID-19 quarantine, it's apparent that testing, contact tracing and isolation are the keys to preventing a second wave of infections. In general, there are two main types of contact tracing: human and...
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The U.S Attorney General has published, on April 13th 2020, new guidance regarding the use of counter drone system by the Department of Justice and Department of Homeland Security, enabling them to track, intercept, and damage or destroy threatening drones in some cases. According to Attorney...
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The COVID-19 pandemic has unraveled air travel The COVID-19 pandemic has unraveled air travel across the globe and turned some of the world’s busiest airports into giant voids. During the early stages of the pandemic, governments urged their citizens to return home as they prepared to...
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Surveillance Vs. Safety and Privacy Issues - Who Wins the Geo-Location Tracing Battle? According to a recent statement by the World Health Organization (WHO), to suppress and control the pandemic, after the country-wide shutdowns, countries must isolate, test, treat and trace. Currently, more and more governments...
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As the COVID-19 outbreak continues and the number of new cases is rising exponentially more countries are enforcing stricter measures to keep citizens at home and isolated. In order to enforce these new measures countries are deploying a large amount of law enforcement, public safety,...
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The Singaporean government has launched a new app for contact tracing to combat spread of COVID-19 called TraceTogether. The app, which is another tool used by Singapore to trace potentially infected people, works by exchanging short-distance Bluetooth signals between phones to detect other participating TraceTogether...
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COVID-19 pandemic is re-writing the rules of air travel safety and security The COVID-19 pandemic has brought the aviation industry to a holt as more and more governments are urging their citizens to return home as they prepare to close their borders and shut down international...
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As COVID-19 outbreak increases, so do cyber-attacks using the pandemic as bait. Hackers and cybercriminals have been leveraging the hype and fear connected to the growing COVID-19 pandemic and are hitting health agencies at the worst time possible. The U.S. Health and Human Services Department suffered a...
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One of the effects of the Coronavirus (COVID-19), which emerged in Hubei province, China, during December 2019, is that almost everyone is wearing a surgical mask outdoors in the hope of warding off the virus. Even though the World Health Organization (WHO) has advised healthy...
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How important is China for Global Aviation? There are five countries that make up 50% of total flights. Indeed, flights that depart from US, China, Canada, UK and India comprise half of the global flights. The impact the Corona virus is having on the aviation industry...
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