China uses a traffic-light system on a COVID app to let people know if they can enter public venues. People who recently tried to attend a protest fear the app is being used to monitor and target them ...

PayPal has introduced a feature on its mobile app that enables people selling goods to accept payments via QR codes. The feature means those selling goods outside the traditional retail sector can ...

Britain said it will launch a new COVID-19 app across England and Wales later this month which will allow people to use QR codes when they enter venues, boosting the country's contact tracing to help ...

The Virginia Department of Health announced Thursday that QR codes will be added to Virginia COVID-19 vaccination records as a quick and easy way to show proof of vaccination. The technology will ...

The New South Wales government has updated the Service NSW app to include a QR code scanner as part of a trial that would allow customers to easily check in at hospitality venues across the state and ...

The perp faces jail time, but the incident highlights the growing cyber-abuse of QR codes. Quick-response (QR) codes used by a COVID-19 contact-tracing program were hijacked by a man who simply ...

The EU and the UK are rolling out QR codes that allow people to travel again during the pandemic. The systems both involve Chinese-style encoding of personal information into scannable codes. Insider ...

A security bug in the health app Docket exposed the private information of residents vaccinated against COVID-19 in New Jersey and Utah, where the app received endorsements from state officials.

Chinese President Xi Jinping is pushing for a global Covid-19 tracking system using QR codes, to help fast-track international travel and business during the coronavirus pandemic. China mandated the ...