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LONDON, April 30 — Leading privacy advocates in Britain have urged the government to prevent a soon-to-be launched Covid-19 contact tracing app from turning into a form of state surveillance. Countries are rushing to develop apps which, along with a wider testing and tracking programme, are seen...

Alfredo Sanchez, project manager at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, shows the usage of the contact tracking application, using Bluetooth at the Chamblon barracks, Switzerland April 30, 2020. —Reuters pic

Matthew Gould, chief executive of the National Health Service's technology group NHSX, told a parliamentary committee on Tuesday that an app could be rolled out widely in Britain in two to three weeks. “It is vital that, when we come out of the current crisis, we have not created a tool that enables data collection on the population, or on targeted sections of society, for surveillance,” they said.

Germany recently changed course, saying it would join a growing number of other European countries in adopting a “decentralised” approach supported by Apple and Google.

 

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