Report: Guardsquare Reveals Security and Privacy Risks Persist in Global COVID-19 Contact Tracing Apps
Share: Analysis Finds 60% of Apps Use Secure Official API, Remaining 40% Still Lack Basic Protections Guardsquare, the mobile application security platform, today announced the release of the company's second "Global Contact Tracing App Analysis," which reassesses the levels of security protections and privacy risks of COVID-19 contact tracing apps. The report found that of the 95 mobile apps analyzed, 60% use the official application programming interface (API) for secure exposure notifications. For the remaining 40% of the contact tracing apps, the majority of which gather GPS location data...
Source: benzinga.com