Countries around the world continue to grapple with COVID-19 contact tracing apps and their privacy applications. Here are the latest developments regarding the deployment of those apps:

• According to MIT Technology Review, many provisions within the Exposure Notification Privacy Act proposed by U.S. lawmakers can be found in policies already in place for Apple and Google's contact tracing app.
• U.K. digital rights group Open Rights Group is preparing a lawsuit against the government for its data retention plan for the COVID-19 "track and trace" program, ITPro reports.
• The Federal Cabinet of Germany, Bundesregierung, announced the launch of the first version of the country's COVID-19 tracing app. (Original post is in German.)
• BBC News reports France's StopCovid app was installed by 600,000 citizens less than a day after its launch.
• Kansas Attorney General Derek Schmidt urged the state Legislature to draw up legislation to regulate the state's contact tracing efforts.

Editor's note: The IAPP Resource Center compiled global privacy updates on its COVID-19 Guidance and Resources page.