Governments around the world are developing mobile apps to help reduce the spread of the coronavirus using a method known as 'contact tracing.'
Contact tracing is the process of asking infected patients who they've recently come into contact with.Critics are concerned that some of the initiatives could impinge on people's privacy.Singapore's new contact tracing app, TraceTogether, which is being used as a preventive measure against the Covid-19 coronavirus in the city-state.Governments around the world are developing mobile apps to help reduce the spread of the coronavirus using a method known as "contact tracing.
Experts say that logging that data through a smartphone would be a much more effective strategy, but there are concerns over what that means for users' privacy. Some of the initiatives use Bluetooth to notify people when they've been near someone infected with coronavirus, while others use GPS location data, which is harder to anonymize.
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