In contrast, CovidSafe only gathers your name, mobile number, postcode, and age range, all which you are voluntarily sharing at the time of creating a profile. The app then uses Bluetooth to recognise the times when you may have come in contact with an infected person, which is stored for 21 days. The government has also ensured that this information will be Photo Editing Services encrypted to inhibit hackers and have also made any use of the data that is not directing linked with COVID-19 tracing to be a criminal offence by law. This encryption and legislation provide a lot more safeguards to our information than what is currently being offered by other data collecting applications.

CovidSafe is designed to help stop the spread of a potentially fatal virus. The app is not designed to gather your information for marketing purposes and is not being stored to keep tabs on the population. Users can also have peace of mind knowing that the app can be deleted at anytime, which would immediately stop the sharing of your information.

We are already willingly sharing our information online every day to help huge corporations earn advertising revenue, without too much concern about privacy and what is being tracked. We can’t let conspiracy theories and fear stop us from enabling an action that may bring an end to avoidable deaths.