SE - New tool reveals security and privacy issues with contact tracing apps - Queen Mary University of London
A woman holding her smartphone checking a contact tracing app. Credit:mphillips007/iStock.com COVIDGuardian, the first automated security and privacy assessment tool, tests contact tracing apps for potential threats such as malware, embedded trackers and private information leakage. Using the COVIDGuardian tool, cybersecurity experts assessed 40 Covid-19 contact tracing apps that have been employed worldwide for potential privacy and security threats. Their findings include that: 72.5 per cen...
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