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... [+]There are few positive stories about COVID-19 tracking apps and a review of 11 tools created across the world has deemed many deeply concerning from a privacy perspective. So much so that Norway has suspended its coronavirus tracking app Smittestopp, the first to do so over privacy issues.was carried out by Amnesty International. Led by security researcher Claudio Guarnieri, he describes the global rollout of such apps as a “trash fire.
The Norwegian app uploaded live or near-live user locations as GPS coordinates to a central server. “The Norwegian app is deeply intrusive and put people’s privacy at risk. It is the right decision to press pause and go back to the drawing board to design an app that puts privacy front and centre,” Guarnieri said in a statement. that many others outside of Norway had “serious privacy and security issues.
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