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Call for more protections over Covid app data

09:18 am on 6 January 2021

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There are calls for legislation to be put in place to protect how the data collected by the Covid tracer app is used. 

Dr Andrew Chen from Auckland University has written to Health Minister Chris Hipkins and Director General of Health Ashley Bloomfield about this.

He tells Jesse what he's proposing.

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