How safe is COVIDSafe?

Will global contact tracing apps designed for containing the coronavirus mark the end of location anonymity?

“A number of third party engineers had reengineered the code for the app ahead of this and confirmed that the app doesn’t collect location data and deletes encrypted logs after 21 days, which ensures that this data cannot be stolen and used inappropriately by hackers” Australia launched its COVIDSafe contact tracing smartphone application on Sunday April 26th and within the first five hours of it being available more than a million people had downloaded it. That so many people downloaded this software is a feat on its own, but this application is one of the first of its kind (at least we hope) to keep track of the population’s movement using an encrypted identification number in a way that links directly to your medical records. A few years ago the…

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