FIJI NEWS: No threat to privacy and security for careFiji App

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The Coronavirus contact following App “careFiji” has no danger and doesn’t represent an encroachment to the protection of clients.

The affirmation has been made by the Director-General for Digital Fiji Tupoitua’h Baravilala saying the application is exclusively to shield Fijians from any future danger of the pandemic.

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Baravilala says the App doesn’t tract area neither does it permit computerized move of data when clients are in closeness.

She says the careFiji App goes about as a cutting edge upgrade to conventional techniques for following the spread of the infection and that by itself.

As far as close to home data, the main individual data that is required is your versatile number, presently the motivation behind why that is required is so you can actuate your record on the careFiji App and furthermore if you have crossed way with a COVID-19 patient, the Ministry of Health contact following group will have the option to get in touch with you at the soonest.”

Baravilala additionally says if other data is required it will be upon clients to give assent.

“So as to secure you, and your friends and family and everyone around you, the proposal is to have it, nobody approaches it until you agree to sending it across to the Ministry of Health and Medical Services.”

The administration is asking Fijians to peruse the protection strategy once they register.

The careFiji App is currently accessible on Play store.

Altered by NZ Fiji Times

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