Data collection in new Covid-19 app ‘troubling’

Thu, 23 Jul, 2020 - 17:00

Cate McCurry, PA

Ireland’s new Covid-19 contact tracing app has been dealt a blow after researchers criticised its “intrusive data collection”, describing it as “troubling”.

Privacy experts have raised concerns over the app, which has been downloaded more than 1.4 million times since it was launched a number of weeks ago.

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