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Comment: Asia-Pacific's Covid-19 contact-tracing apps raise efficiency, security questions

By James Panichi, Jet Damazo-Santos, Laurel Henning, Wooyoung Lee, Toko Sekiguchi, Phoebe Seers and Xu Yuan ( September 9, 2020, 04:53 GMT | Comment) -- As the Covid-19 pandemic hit, Australia, New Zealand and Japan made early moves to get Bluetooth-based contact-tracing systems up and running, modeled on a mobile-phone application first deployed in Singapore to tackle the spread of the virus. But with countries across the Asia-Pacific region deploying such apps, questions are being raised over the system’s effectiveness and, crucially, the security of its data.When the Covid-19 pandemic hit Asia, Australia, New Zealand and Japan all made early moves to get Bluetooth-based contact-tracing systems up and running, modeled on a mobile-phone application first deployed in Singapore....

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