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Victoria Stopped Using COVIDSafe ‘Because They Hadn’t Found Value In It’
Victoria’s contact tracing team had stopped using COVIDSafe altogether for a period during Melbourne’s outbreak as it provided little value, the former chief medical officer has revealed. During a Senate hearing on the Australian Government’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic, the former Chief Medical Officer Dr Brendan Murphy said Victoria’s Department of Health and Human…
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Victoria Accessed COVIDSafe Data 21 Times But Couldn’t Identify Any New Contacts
Victoria’s health authority has accessed data from the COVIDSafe app for 21 coronavirus cases but it is yet to identify a single contact manual tracers hadn’t already uncovered, Gizmodo Australia has learned.
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COVIDSafe Still Has Bugs, According To Experts
There has been a lot of discussion surrounding the government’s coronavirus tracing app, COVIDSafe, but at the forefront has been issues of privacy and its ability to work properly on devices. With the federal government tying the easing of social restrictions to app downloads, developers have reverse engineered the app to find out what’s actually…