Britain, for instance, announced on Sunday it will soon launch an app that would automatically alert people who have been close to someone who comes down with Covid-19 symptoms. ― IStock.com/AFP pic
It is also worried these apps could fall foul of strong EU data privacy rules and Europeans' deep-seated wariness of technological prying. An EU official giving more details to journalists later called such apps “very useful to prevent localised flare-ups” of the virus. France is in the process of setting up its own but parliament will have to weigh up considerable public suspicion of tracking apps when it discusses it at the end of the month.
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