The Australian government on Sunday launched a voluntary, though controversial, mobile phone application for tracing users' whereabouts and alerting them if they have come into contact with someone diagnosed with the novel coronavirus.Called COVIDSafe, the app is based on Singapore's TraceTogether contact-tracing app and uses Bluetooth to detect and record other nearby phones that also have the app installed.The software will keep an encrypted record of the time, date, distance and duration of any close contact with other app users. Geolocation will not be recorded and data will only be acc…READ FULL ARTICLE
