Coronavirus : Alarm over ’invasive’ Kuwait and Bahrain contact-tracing apps
▻https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-53052395
Kuwait and Bahrain have rolled out some of the most invasive Covid-19 contact-tracing apps in the world, putting the privacy and security of their users at risk, Amnesty International says. The rights group found the apps were carrying out live or near-live tracking of users’ locations by uploading GPS co-ordinates to a central server. It urged the Gulf states to stop using them in their current forms. Norway has halted the roll-out of its app because of similar concerns. The country’s (...)
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