Coronavirus: US contact tracing app shares private data with outside firm
The latest headlines from our reporters across the US sent straight to your inbox each weekday Your briefing on the latest headlines from across the US Your briefing on the latest headlines from across the US SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. A new analysis of one of the first US contact-tracing apps, North and South Dakota's Care19, found that it violates its own privacy policy by sharing location and other personal data with an outside company. But Care19's privacy policy says the location data is “private to you” and is “stored securely” on servers belonging to ProudCrowd. Tracing the flow of data from the app, it found Care19 sends data to Foursquare, including a user's location, their advertising identifier and the unique “citizen code” generated by the app. “We will be working with our state partners to be more explicit in our privacy policy.” Mr Brookins said his app would stop sharing the users' code with Foursquare.
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