‘Privacy minefield’: can businesses adapt to new contact-tracing rules?

Bars, restaurants and other venues in England instructed to record customers’ details to enable coronavirus tracking

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Bars, restaurants and other venues in England instructed to record customers’ details to enable coronavirus tracking
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Businesses being asked to record the names and contact details of their customers to assist with coronavirus test-and-trace efforts are facing a “privacy minefield”, campaigners are warning.

Boris Johnson has announced that the hospitality sector will be allowed to reopen from 4 July, in the next stage of easing lockdown restrictions in England.

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