New free SMS service to bolster contact tracingBy Shelley Shan / Staff reporterThe Executive Yuan yesterday launched a free short message service (SMS) that would boost the government’s contact-tracing efforts without disclosing personal data to third parties. A person entering Taipei Railway Station yesterday shows the free text message function that appears after scanning a QR code. When entering a store or a restaurant, customers simply need to scan the code using a QR code reader on their smartphone, and a link would pop up, she said. People would not have to pay for the text message, Tang said. If people’s mobile phones do not have a QR code reader, they can instead manually type the venue’s identification code in an SMS and send it to 1922, she said.

Source: Taipei Times May 19, 2021 15:56 UTC