Norway Halts Coronavirus Tracking App Over Privacy Concerns
People queue in Oslo to take boats to reach the islands in the Oslo Fjord on May 31.
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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.