We will never know exactly how effective digital health passes were: Ada Lovelace report

Measures like contact tracing apps and digital vaccine certificates were rolled out without a clear idea of what would constitute evidence that they were effective, resulting in a predictably murky picture of whether the mass data collection they entailed was worth it, according to a new report from the Ada Lovelace Institute.

‘Lessons from the App Store’ is accompanied by a ‘COVID-19 Data Explorer,’ which offers evidence of the kinds of data collected by 34 countries, along with …

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