Norway halted the use of its mobile phone tool for tracking the spread of Covid-19 after the country’s data privacy watchdog raised flags that it’s too invasive now that infection rates have slowed.
The Norwegian Institute of Public Health stopped gathering information and deleted all data from its mobile app after the Data Protection Authority warned that it will temporarily ban the processing of personal information associated with the Smittestopp application.
“Smittestopp is a very invasive measure, even in an exceptional situation where society is trying to fight a pandemic,” the Data Protection Authority said in a statement. “The legality ...
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