August 27, 2020
Who owns your COVID-19 contact tracing data?
Do you know who is using your data?
Contact tracing is one of the most popular techniques used for fighting the spread of COVID-19. Some countries have developed apps that help scale it, but do we know what's being done with all the personal data collected?
First step is thinking who's behind the application, or who manages it. Is it a private company or a public institution? How do they store the data? Who owns it? We've started answering these questions by looking who's behind the most popular contact tracing apps around the world.
The interactive map below can help you with that.
