Inside China Tech: Privacy vs urgency in Covid-19 contact tracing

Good morning, this is Melissa Zhu from the SCMP tech desk in Hong Kong rounding up some of our key stories from the week.In the past, contact tracing was done through in-person interviews with medical professionals. Now smartphones have the power to streamline and automate that process, making it a plausible way to help tackle the global coronavirus pandemic that has sickened millions and brought the world economy to its knees.The one problem? Data privacy.Our reporters Josh Ye, Coco Feng and…

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