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COVID-19 contact-tracing apps in MENA : a privacy nightmare
▻https://www.accessnow.org/covid-19-contact-tracing-apps-in-mena-a-privacy-nightmare

At the outbreak of the COVID-19 global pandemic, a number of countries in the MENA region turned to technology to help track and prevent the spread of the virus, using apps, drones, and even robots to monitor the movement of citizens under quarantine. Now, as countries are looking to slowly return to life and lift lockdown measures, more are jumping on the bandwagon, including developing their own contact-tracing apps, as seen most recently in Morocco and Tunisia. While contact-tracing (...)

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Coronavirus : Alarm over ’invasive’ Kuwait and Bahrain contact-tracing apps
▻https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-53052395

Kuwait and Bahrain have rolled out some of the most invasive Covid-19 contact-tracing apps in the world, putting the privacy and security of their users at risk, Amnesty International says. The rights group found the apps were carrying out live or near-live tracking of users’ locations by uploading GPS co-ordinates to a central server. It urged the Gulf states to stop using them in their current forms. Norway has halted the roll-out of its app because of similar concerns. The country’s (...)

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