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Portugal developed and adopted a contact tracing smartphone application, in order to help in the containment of the spreading of the COVID-19 pandemic. The particular technology used was adopted in order to guaranteed privacy and security but it did not prove particularly effective, since it was downloaded by only a fraction of the population and very lightly used to report cases of contacts between infected and non-infected persons. These issues are addressed and discussed in the present text.
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L. Oliveira, A. (2022). COVID-19 Contact Tracing Applications in Portugal: Effectiveness and Privacy Issues. In: Ferreira, M.I.A., Tokhi, M.O. (eds) Towards Trustworthy Artificial Intelligent Systems. Intelligent Systems, Control and Automation: Science and Engineering, vol 102. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-09823-9_8
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