German police tracked down restaurant death witnesses using Covid app data
German police tracked down restaurant death witnesses using Covid app data
Prosecutors have apologised and a local data protection authority has opened an inquiry (Picture: Getty/Rex)
German police are being investigated for using Covid-tracking data as part of a probe into a death.
A man died after he fell while leaving a restaurant in the western city of Mainz last November.
Officers were looking for witnesses so they obtained information from the app Luca – which…