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Privacy & Security Researcher. Head of Security Lab at @amnesty. Creator of @cuckoosandbox and @swborders. He/him. Twitter in write-only. Opinions are my own.
Jun 16, 2020 15 tweets 7 min read
📢 NEW: In the last month @amnesty Security Lab analyzed many #COVID19 contact-tracing apps. We found apps from Kuwait, Bahrain and Norway among the most problematic, although privacy and security issues are common. THREAD 👇
amnesty.org/en/latest/news… Kuwait #Shlonik, Bahrain #BeAwareBahrain and Norway #Smittestopp all conduct GPS tracking of their users. After they are installed, latitudes and longitude are recorded and later uploaded to their central servers at different frequencies: from every few minutes to every hour. 😬