Users offered an update of app that ‘removes functionality … so no information is stored or collected’
“This will enable [the] decommission process of CovidSafe,” it said, citing the fact the app “is no longer being used in contact tracing”.the app “is no longer required to prevent or control; the entry, emergence, establishment or spread of the coronavirus known as Covid‑19”.Act states that the chief medical officer or the Australian Health Protection Principal Committee must be consulted before such a move.
The determination ends the collection of data on the app, means it will no longer be available to be downloaded, and requires that all data collected on it be deleted “as soon as reasonably practicable”.on the operation of the app, released this month, revealed between May and November 2021, contact tracers downloaded data from the app just 13 times, with only two potential close contacts identified through the app.
Since its launch in 2020, there had been 792 people with Covid uploading data from the app, with 2,829 potential close contacts identified.
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