With COVID isolation scrapped in England, it’s unclear what’s next for the NHS’s much-discussed app.
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Instead of making the lives of contact tracers easier, analysis shows the expensive technology missed contacts and added to their workload.
Concerns about privacy protection of contact tracing data include the potential use by police for enforcement purposes or businesses for marketing.
Models show at least 60% of the population would need to use the COVID-19 tracer app to have enough data to control an outbreak without a lockdown – but only about 10% of New Zealand adults scan in.
Revelations that WA police accessed data from the state’s QR code contact-tracing app threaten to put a serious dent in the public’s trust. And this trust is a crucial element of our COVID defences.
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Research Fellow at Koi Tū: The Centre for Informed Futures, University of Auckland, Waipapa Taumata Rau
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Associate Professor, School of Public Health, The University of Queensland
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Professor of Epidemiology, UNSW Sydney
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Professor of Internet Studies, Curtin University
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Postdoctoral Researcher, Information School, University of Sheffield
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Senior Research Fellow, The Kirby Institute, UNSW Sydney
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Senior Research Fellow, Kirby Institute, UNSW Sydney
