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Jamaica’s JamCOVID pulled offline after third security lapse exposed travelers’ data
Jamaica’s JamCOVID app and website were taken offline late on Thursday following a third security lapse, which exposed quarantine orders on more than half a million travelers to the island.
JamCOVID was set up last year to help the government process travelers arriving on the island. Quarantine orders are issued by the Jamaican Ministry of Health and instruct travelers to stay in their accommodation for two weeks to prevent the spread of COVID-19.
These orders contain the traveler’s name and the address of where they are ordered to stay.
Jamaica’s immigration website exposed thousands of travelers’ data
Immigration documents and COVID-19 lab results were left unprotected
A security lapse by a Jamaican government contractor has exposed immigration records and COVID-19 test results for hundreds of thousands of travelers who visited the island over the past year.
The Jamaican government contracted Amber Group to build the JamCOVID19 website and app, which the government uses to publish daily coronavirus figures and allows residents to self-report their symptoms. The contractor also built the website to pre-approve travel applications to visit the island during the pandemic, a process that requires travelers to upload a negative COVID-19 test result before they board their flight if they come from high-risk countries, including the United States.
Needed: A bold strategy for tourism
Dear Editor,
In case anyone is interested, Jamaica is currently teaching a master class in how to manage tourism during the uncertainties of quick-changing COVID-19 protocols.
While we scream and lobby for the US to give us some sort of special treatment, Jamaica has made no such public posturing. They are too busy adapting to the new rules coming out of the US, Canada and the United Kingdom.
We want some sort of accommodation from the US to their new policy requiring everyone entering the country to produce a recent negative COVID test.
On the same day that the new US policy took effect, Jamaica’s tourism minister announced that 30 hotels on his island were staffed and equipped to provide free COVID testing for guests at their properties as quickly as 24 hours before they return home.
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