More than 1.13 million people have downloaded the coronavirus tracing app, COVIDSafe, exceeding government expectations | nikkprecel
"That's an extraordinary achievement. We'd hoped to reach the million mark in perhaps five days - we got there in five hours," Mr Hunt said.According to experts, at least 40 per cent of the population would need to download the app for it to be effective.
Web security expert Troy Hunt said the app ran on Bluetooth LE , which is designed for favourable battery life. "There are plenty of other apps that work out there in similar ways," he said. So far, some users have told this masthead it was easy to download, while others had trouble finding it in the app store.
"The reason for that is that there's constant review of the safety and security," Mr Hunt told ABC radio's"Our first task is to make sure the security assessment is done and that there is absolute protection of privacy above all else, but at the same time, working on the same basis as other countries such as Singapore, we will be releasing the source code ... for a full assessment," he said.
Mr Hunt said it has the "strongest data protection both physically and in law that Australia has ever had", meaning the information couldn't even be accessed for a criminal investigation via a court order.
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