The Hong Kong government’s COVID-19 contact-tracing app contains serious security risks that could jeopardize the privacy of users’ personal information, an independent audit revealed. The U.S. government-funded Open Technology Fund hired Poland-based cybersecurity firm 7ASecurity in July to conduct an audit of the “Leave Home Safe” mobile app, which found eight security vulnerabilities and four…

The Hong Kong government recently admitted that its contact tracing mobile app LeaveHomeSafe contains a facial recognition function. However, the authorities claimed that they didn’t know about it before and had never used the feature. Hong Kong residents have had concerns since the introduction of LeaveHomeSafe. Many have expressed fear of it becoming the government’s…

South Australian Premier Steven Marshall has reassured residents that no data was compromised after the state’s contact tracing app was hacked. “There has been no hacking or compromise of data on the mySA GOV app, and there has been no compromise of data that we use for our COVID check-in,” he told reporters. “What we…

The New South Wales (NSW) government is considering a proposal to overhaul contact tracing rules for people who have received two doses of a COVID-19 vaccination. Under the proposal (pdf), a fully vaccinated person will no longer be identified as a close contact nor be forced to isolate if they have visited an exposure site,…