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Technical analysis of the app [1]

It uses Bluetooth to find people nearby, and records their randomised id

Each randomised id is associated with a phone no

Link between id and phone is with ministry of health, so stealing the logs is not useful

Finally, you only asked to share data if you came in contact with a known case.

I guess you can choose not to share / say app got removed, but it is self-defeating; you really want to know details and who else is in danger

This is war-like effort, so keeping Bluetooth on is small price to pay

[1] https://medium.com/@frankvolkel/tracetogether-under-the-hood...




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