4 takeaways from contact tracing apps in other countries

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As Canada is set to launch a contact tracing app in the next month, other countries have seen mixed results with their products.

While contact tracing apps have been rolled out elsewhere,not every country’s app has had a smooth roll out.PRIVACY CONCERNS ABOUNDexamined 11 contact tracing apps from Europe, north Africa and Asia, and found some of the apps are “putting the privacy and security of hundreds of thousands of people at risk.”

Trudeau said Thursday that the privacy of Canadians “will be fully respected,” and that location services would not be used for the app, meaning it would not use real-time movement tracking. Switzerland, Germany and Italy have already launched apps based on this model. Last month, Apple and Google said that health agencies from 22 countries and U.S. states are using the tool to develop their own app.

In Iceland, developers launched “Rakning C-19” in early April and it was quickly downloaded by 38 per cent of the population, but its impact has been minimal. In the United Kingdom, a contact tracing app had been a focal point of its response to the virus, with an initial plan to release their app in mid-May, but now the British government has said it won’t be ready before winter.

 

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