The coronavirus tracing app has been released. Here's what it looks like and what it wants to do
The Government's coronavirus tracing app has been released, and its uptake will play a large part in helping ease restrictions.COVIDSafe and will allow authorities to quickly notify people if they have been in contact with someone who has been infected with coronavirusThe voluntary app can be downloaded now and people can register their details — even using a fake name if they want — from 6:00pm AEST on Sunday.
"It is only for one purpose, to help contact tracing. If someone becomes positive, that is all it is for and all that it will be used for."Wondering if you should use the app, what is involved, what access you may have to give the app and what data is taken from your phone? Here's the latest that we know.The app will speed up the contact-tracing process by several crucial days, Professor Murphy said.When two or more people who have the app installed are within 1.
If anyone using the app tests positive to COVID-19, they would be asked to download their encrypted contact log and send it to the Government, which will store it in a central server in Australia.
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