Security News > 2020 > April > Australia’s contact-tracing regulation avoids ‘woolly principals’ in comparable cyber-laws say lawyers
2020-04-27 00:01
Australia has released its promised COVID-19 contact-tracing app.
Dubbed COVIDSafe, the smartphone app follows the now-established practice of asking people to register their name, age range, phone number, and postcode, and create a unique identifier.
The app, available for Android and iOS, uses some code from Singapore's TraceTogther app and uses Amazon Web Services to store registration information, encrypted user IDs, and contact data.
While source code of the app has not been released, a privacy impact assessment [PDF] drawn up by lawyers recommends it be made available.
The Register is yet to find an authoritative post-de-compilation analysis, but some efforts have been made and offer cautiously optimistic assessments of the app.