Apps collecting data to help stop the virus spread must limit sharing of information: Cybersecurity expert
, for example, has used records such as credit card transactions, smartphone location data, and CCTV video footage as well as conversations between people, to create a system where confirmed cases are tracked.
Moves like that have raised alarm among privacy advocates who question if the heightened surveillance will continue even after the pandemic ends. "That's going to be the really important question in sort of how do we limit this use of information so it doesn't turn into a mass invasion of privacy long term," she said.There have been some encouraging signs from governments and companies so far about limiting the use of information collected via contact tracing methods, according to Wolff.
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