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Survey reveals Kiwis' growing comfort-level with location-tracking

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Newstalk ZB,
Publish Date
Thu, 26 Nov 2020, 2:42PM
The automated tracing technology jointly-developed by Apple and Android maker Google uses Bluetooth to record other smartphone users who come within 2m of you for more than 10 minutes. Image / Getty
The automated tracing technology jointly-developed by Apple and Android maker Google uses Bluetooth to record other smartphone users who come within 2m of you for more than 10 minutes. Image / Getty

Survey reveals Kiwis' growing comfort-level with location-tracking

Author
Newstalk ZB,
Publish Date
Thu, 26 Nov 2020, 2:42PM

There's good news for the Ministry of Health as it prepares to integrate Apple and Google's automated contact tracing solution to its NZ Covid Tracer App.

A new survey has found that more than two-third of Kiwis now believe their phone's location data - which keeps a record of all your movements, if enabled - can be used positively by government agencies to improve public services and emergency responses.

And some 50 per cent say they have become more willing to share location data.

Tech commentator Paul Brislen told Mike Hosking that Kiwis are getting used to location data being shared. 

He says that users need more education on what location data means and how it is used. 

"It's a good technology if you use it and you are aware of it, so it's really about informed consent." 

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