WalkSafe app showing safe routes home downloaded 200k times in five days after Sarah Everard murder 

A newly-released app uses police data to show users where recent crimes have happened – so they can pick safe routes to walk home. WalkSafe pins stabbings, muggings and burglaries on a map to warn pedestrians. There have been more than 200,000 downloads of the free safety app in five days – as focus has … Read more

More than 10 million people have downloaded the NHS Covid-19 app since it launched last week

Venues have been refusing entry to customers who have not downloaded the NHS Covid-19 app, despite less than a sixth of the UK population – around 10 million people – getting it on their phones.   The infection tracing software has been plagued with problems with the latest fiasco seeing up to 70,000 users blocked from logging … Read more

Police scanner apps were downloaded 213,000 times over the weekend amid US protests

Police scanner apps surpassed Facebook and Instagram in the App Store, as Americans continue to protest the death of George Floyd – an unarmed black man who was killed while in police custody. Data shows these type of apps were downloaded 213,000 times just over the past weekend and as of Tuesday, 5-0 Radio Pro … Read more