Dept of Health officials dismissed criticism of Covid tracker app as 'incorrect'

The HSE told the academics it welcomed "any research" which could help to improve the app.

An academic research paper which was critical of the government's Covid Tracker app was dismissed as "incorrect" and closer to "journalism" than research by the Department of Health.

The criticism was made regarding a paper compiled by Doug Leith and Stephen Farrell, academics within the school of computer science at Trinity College Dublin, which asserted, among other things, that the new app was sharing a great deal of personal information with Google.