The New Zealand-made contact tracing app, Rippl, is being trialled in the United Kingdom under a new name: StaySafe Diary. It’s the only contact tracing app in New Zealand to have been awarded the Privacy Commissioner's Privacy Trust Mark – intended to give consumers confidence products or services respect and protect personal information. It recently announced it was abandoning a contact tracing app it had been testing largely, in favour of one based on technology built by Apple and Google. Unlike New Zealand, the UK at alert level 3 doesn’t have contact tracing requirements. Meanwhile, experts in New Zealand have said it was a mistake for the Government to drop contact tracing requirements at level 1.

Source: Stuff July 19, 2020 21:00 UTC