The rights group found the apps were carrying out live or near-live tracking of users' locations by uploading GPS co-ordinates to a central server.

It urged the Gulf states to stop using them in their current forms.

Norway has halted the roll-out of its app because of similar concerns.

The country's data protection authority said the app represented a disproportionate intrusion into users' privacy given the low rate of infection there.

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