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New warning on virus apps’ digital privacy safeguards

National authorities have actually currently launched or strategy to present contact-tracing apps throughout the EU, with the concept that these technologies make it much easier and quicker for health authorities to alert or discover those possibly exposed to the coronavirus. Nevertheless, the human rights group Amnesty International cautioned on Monday (11 May) that using monitoring […]

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Vestager pushes tracing apps as key for summer holidays

Covid-19 tracking mobile apps can be “a substantial support” for tracking contact-tracing when reducing lockdowns and limiting procedures, the EU commissioner, Margrethe Vestager, stated Monday (4 May). “[The EU] can take advantage of these apps to allow some taking a trip throughout the holiday,” Vestager, commissioner for the digital portfolio, informed informed MEPs of the […]

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Sam Smith turned to dating apps in panic during first two weeks of lockdown

Sam Smith turned to dating apps during the first two weeks of lockdown after they worried about being single. The 27- year-old vocalist is currently quarantining at home in the UK with their sibling and confessed they went crazy about their single status when the Covid-19 lockdown was first presented. Speaking to Rob Howard and […]

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EU agrees not to use location data in tracing apps

Member states settled on Thursday (16 April) that Covid-19 mobile applications need to not procedure the location data of people, due to the fact that “it is not necessary nor recommended for the purpose of contact tracing”. “Collecting an individual’s movements in the context of contact tracing apps would create major security and privacy issues,” […]

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