A Buggy Contact-Tracing App Is Latest Setback for Tokyo Olympics
- Athletes, teams will be asked to download app upon arrival
- Japan’s government says software isn’t working as promised
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Organizers for the Tokyo Olympics are asking athletes and teams to install a smartphone app that tracks their movements to help prevent the spread of the coronavirus when they arrive in Japan, but there’s just one problem.
“It’s not a good app,” Minister for Digital Transformation Takuya Hirai said last month, following a series of high-profile glitches, including one in which the app didn’t notify users they were exposed to confirmed infections for more than four months.