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Contact-Tracing Apps Can Still Save Lives – PCMag AU
COVID-tracking apps should be the least of your digital privacy concerns. Download the app and help us get this virus under control.
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Once a day or so, I log into the COVID Alert NY App and log my status. So far, that has meant one tap to say I feel well. If I were to come into prolonged contact with someone with COVID, I would get a push alert via the app letting me know. But that’s dependent on the person I came into contact with also logging their status in the app.
The problem is that very few people are using these apps. This is partly because they dont know about them, but also because of privacy concerns….
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