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UK privacy advocates warn over COVID-19 contact tracing app

Main privacy advocates in Britain have advised the government to forestall a soon-to-be offered COVID-19 contact tracing app from turning into a kind of state surveillance.
Leading privacy advocates in Britain have urged the government to prevent a soon-to-be launched COVID-19 contact tracing app from turning into a form of state surveillance.

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