All over the world, including Italy, countries are equipping themselves with a coronavirus contagion tracking app and a debate has started on privacy and security. And in these days, one of the applications proposed to the Dutch government, Covid19 Alert!, Has undergone a 'data breach', that is, a data exposure. While Liechtenstein also experiences an electronic bracelet.
According to what the newspaper DeStandard writes, about 100-200 names, emails, encrypted passwords have been made public. "A human mistake, we solved it in half an hour," says one of the creators of the Covid19 Alert! App. The data, it is not understood the cause, was accessible from a different app of the developers, a problem caused, according to them, by haste and "by human error". The app allows you to understand if you have been close to that of a coronavirus patient with your phone, exactly as it happens for other applications, including Immuni, the one chosen by the Italian government. The developers invited people who used the app to delete the stored data and the Dutch Privacy Guarantor was also informed.
In addition to apps, some countries experiment with tracking the Covid-19 with bracelets. It happens in Liechtenstein where a voluntary study is underway involving over two thousand people between 33 and 52 who will use an electronic bracelet to monitor health. If it works, the experiment will be extended. In mid-March, electronic bracelet was imposed on travelers from other countries in Hong Kong.
