The app is based on a similar piece of software out of Singapore, called TraceTogether
The most likely way your personal data could be misused or stolen is through that secret database. Richard Buckland, a professor in cyber security at UNSW, says that's where the real danger lies. "If you know the secret keys – the passwords that the government uses to set this up – you can work out what all the anonymous IDs would be. That's one little secret you need to get a hold of a database where you can access every 'polo' they're going to call out," he says.
So how likely is it that the secret database could be hacked? It's almost inevitable, Professor Buckland says. "I would assume the database would be compromised," he says. "Everything can be hacked. The [United States'] National Security Agency and Facebook are both far better funded than we are – and they've both been breached.
Professor Buckland makes another point about your personal data: we don't know for sure how a government of the future will use this new information. The epidemiologist says there could be more use in shortening the timeframe for contact recording to five or 10 minutes, rather than 15.
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