Exposed to privacy risk as urgent action taken to trace COVID cases’ contacts

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Exposed to privacy risk as urgent action taken to trace COVID cases’ contacts

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Vanessa Weenink

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Traditional contact tracing is done by skilled clinicians, but new technological options have privacy implications

PRIVACY MATTERS

A government contact-tracing order led to ad hoc and chaotic collection of personal information by businesses, writes privacy expert Eve Kennedy in this wide-ranging update

It’s no surprise that tracking the location and personal interactions of the population-at-large raises privacy risks of a scale not often seen in a l