1 million downloads in 5 hours of a new contact-tracking app in Australia

The current pandemic is influencing a lot of tech companies to work on contact-tracking systems, including . The Australian government has also developed a coronavirus tracking system and it has been downloaded 1 million times just for the five hours after its release.

The app, called COVIDSafe, connects with other phones that have it installed, using Bluetooth, with a reach of 4.9 feet (1.5 metres). The app records date, time, contact distance and duration (if it’s more than 15 minutes), as well as the other user’s encrypted identification code, and all the recorded information is kept ...

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