07/06/2020 - 20:05
- Clarín.com
- Politics
The LED Foundation warned of the invasion of privacy of the CuidAR app, which serves to make a self-evaluation of coronavirus symptoms, but at the same time allows the monitoring of people, through the GPS of cell phones.
The entity released a report in which it ranked the Argentine application as one of the ones that "most affects the privacy" of citizens, positioning it among the six worst in an international comparison that included 31 countries, behind China, Bahrain, Korea , Iran and India.
The president of the LED Foundation, Silvana Giudici, maintained that the Argentine app "does not take care of the anonymity of the data." It is that the CuidAR app "accesses personal and sensitive data", through a centralized system, without anonymity for non-infected users and "in addition to the phone number, additional information could be shared that would be at the discretion of the programmer who implements the protocol ”, Assures the report, of 38 pages, made by Agustín Alonso, Denise Toperberg, Paula Bande, Gastón Fernández Fellini, Juan Cañada, Jorge Miller Osvaldo Petrosino and Silvana Giudici.
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Watch the specialFor the LED Foundation (Freedom of Expression + Democracy), the app handles personal and sensitive user data, which "must be voluntary, used under the explicit consent of the user and the systems must be designed to be used in a limited period of time, turn off and proceed to the elimination of all the personal data collected when the health emergency comes to an end ”, something that does not happen with the CuidAR app.
In addition, many of the cell phones used in the country prevent GPS from being disabled, due to the age of the cell phone device.
Although its use is not compulsory, the Government strongly encourages it and works as a circulation permit for those who are working because their activities are exempt from the Preventive and Mandatory Social Isolation (ASPO).
