The COVIDSafe app is dead – but was it ever really alive?
By the time of its decommissioning, there were 7.9 million registrations, according to Mr Butler, who called it a "failed app".But the app relied on active users, and people consenting to their positive test results being used, to work.Fewer than 800 users consented to their data to be collected, according to Mr Butler's office.
It refused to join Apple and Google's joint contract tracing system, which was adopted by more than 50 jurisdictions around the world.
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