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May 21, 2020 11:03 pm GMT
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Contact-tracing app caught sharing location data with Foursquare
Contact-tracing apps are problematic, and that's before they violate their own privacy policies.
The Care19 app, developed for the North Dakota Department of Health by developer ProudCrowd, was intended to assist health officials in their battle against coronavirus by logging users' location data. In the process, according to a report released Thursday, it also sent users' location data to Foursquare.
The findings, published by the makers of the privacy-focused app Jumbo, highlight the risks inherent in contact-tracing apps. When you have software designed to log your location, or your interactions with other people, and then share that data, you run the risk of said data ending up in unintended hands. Read more...
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