Iran Launched an App That Claimed to Diagnose Coronavirus. Instead, It Collected Location Data on Millions of People (Q4190)
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article published on March 14, 2020
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Iran Launched an App That Claimed to Diagnose Coronavirus. Instead, It Collected Location Data on Millions of People
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article published on March 14, 2020
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14 March 2020
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The app is called AC19 and it claims to be able to detect whether or not people are infected, says the “coronavirus anti-virus program is designed by the Ministry of Health to detect the likelihood of people having coronavirus.”. Users are prompted to give the app permission to send precise location data to the government’s servers.
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