Australian Ministers Debate COVID-19 Tracing App Privacy Concerns

Australian Ministers Debate COVID-19 Tracing App Privacy Concerns
COVID-19 swab test, Sydney, Australia, April 06, 2020. Mark Kolbe/Getty Images
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Australian members of Parliament and government ministers have weighed in on a debate about privacy concerns over the federal government’s new COVID-19 tracing app.

Federal MP and former Deputy Prime Minister Barnaby Joyce raised concerns in a post on Twitter about whether the new app will really be safe from hacking and cited a London study.
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