Coronavirus Contact-Tracing Apps Could Pose Major Privacy Risk, Amnesty Warns !!
Contact-tracing apps being used to prevent the spread of coronavirus could be collecting deeply personal information, Amnesty International has said. The organisation claims the privacy and security of hundreds of thousands of people have been put at risk by the new platforms. Contact-tracing apps are software that informs people when they have been in contact with someone who has contracted the coronavirus. These vary in terms of features, but can generally be separated into two categories: decentralised apps, where the data is kept on the device, and centralised apps where the…