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Smartphone vs virus, is privacy always going to be the loser?

?Smartphones can help the effort to contain the coronavirus, but do we have to let Big Brother look over our shoulder? [AFP / NOEL CELIS]

In Europe, officials, doctors and engineers are looking at how smartphones could be enlisted in the war against the spread of the new coronavirus.

One obvious attraction for health officials is the possibility of using smartphones to find out with whom someone diagnosed with COVID-19 has been in contact.

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