Norway deletes contact-tracing app data as problems mount

Norway's health authority will delete all data gathered through its contact-tracing app and halt any further use of the technology following privacy concerns. The nation’s contact-tracing app, was one of the first released by Western governments which relied on Bluetooth and GPS data to track people’s movements. Known as the Smittestopp app, or Infection Stop, it was downloaded by more than 1.6 million people in the country of 5.3 million people. But Norway’s Data Protection Au