nzcovidtracer-app VS nzcovidtracer-data

Also, the app which is open source, stores its data on your phone and under your control: https://www.health.govt.nz/our-work/diseases-and-conditions/covid-19-novel-coronavirus/covid-19-resources-and-tools/nz-covid-tracer-app/privacy-and-security-nz-covid-tracer

The code for this easter egg can be found here on GitHub.

It won't be hard to build something that looks like the official one, since the source code is public. It might be a violation of the copyright on the sourcecode that he can be pinched down on. They put it under the GNU, and the way I read that licence it says you can use it to do whatever you want.

Really interesting write-up! New Zealand COVID Tracer app QR codes are actually pretty similar. We don't use URLs, but we do use a base64 encoded JSON prefixed with the "NZCOVIDTRACER" string.

NZ Covid Tracer App is actually open source and the QR code reading function can be seen here: https://github.com/minhealthnz/nzcovidtracer-app/blob/main/s...

And here's the type for the JSON we use: https://github.com/minhealthnz/nzcovidtracer-app/blob/main/s...

Here’s the thing - it does do it. Here’s the code.

It does transmit metrics like the number of scans you've made, but nothing identifiable. This is verifiable by reviewing the source code.

also kind of interesting is in a related repo is a breakdown of all the android phones (as of Jan) that the device is installed on (which covers a lot of the population of NZ). https://github.com/minhealthnz/nzcovidtracer-data/blob/main/...