ND Google promised its contact tracing app was completely private, but it wasn’t (themarkup.org)
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Summary ~lite
Google's contact tracing app had significant privacy issues despite claims of complete privacy.
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reasoning
Investigative journalism on Google's contact tracing app privacy concerns