Matthew Schneider

May 6, 2020

ABTraceTogether continues to disappoint

In the days since the Government of Alberta launched the ABTraceTogether app, the government has received a great deal of criticism for a design choice that requires iPhone users to have their phone unlocked with the app running in the foreground at all times. This requirement both compromises user safety…

Covid 19

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Covid 19

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May 3, 2020

Some of us are in this together, sometimes

This past Friday, the Government of Alberta announced the release of ABTraceTogether, the government’s official COVID-19 contact-tracing app. Contact-tracing apps are an important tool in combating the spread of COVID-19: they provide a system for alerting a user that they’ve potentially been exposed to the virus while at the same…

Covid 19

5 min read

Some of us are in this together, sometimes

Covid 19

5 min read

Matthew Schneider

PhD University of Toronto. Interested in digital materiality and print culture.

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