Privacy experts have branded a planned NHS coronavirus tracking app ‘Orwellian’, but say it may be necessary for the country to survive the pandemic, according to an article in the Daily Mail.
No specific details of the ‘opt-in’ app have been revealed but it would likely make use of GPS and mobile phone location data to track users with the virus. Privacy experts have warned that if the highest level of data protection and privacy isn’t in place ‘it would be too easy for information to fall into the wrong hands’.
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@Tom Lysemose Hansen, CTO and Co-founder , provides expert commentary at @Information Security Buzz.
"Apple’s iOS is not 100% safe either, with some malicious apps making their way onto the App Store for brief periods of time...."
#infosec #cybersecurity #isdots
https://informationsecuritybuzz.com/expert-comments/privacy-expert-insight-on-coronavirus-tracking-app-uses-personal-data-for-mass-surveillance