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Privacy and human rights groups raise concerns over virus-tracking apps

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Governments are turning to mobile applications to track the virus' spread, but privacy and human rights groups have concerns over how the data will be used. France 24 international affairs editor Philip Turle says questions also remain over what happens once the virus threat disappears.

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