The planned mobile App to contain the Coronavirus in Germany will only be available in may available. Announced by Federal Minister of health, Jens Spahn.
“From today’s point of view, there are rather four weeks than two weeks, until we actually then have one that meets all of the requirements,” said the CDU politician.
Spahn stressed that the App had to meet three different requirements: data security, privacy, and the real purpose, namely the spread of the epidemic.
“It must be a secure App, because it comes to sensitive data, in terms of Hacking, access of other and different”, said the Minister.
The epidemiological concept would need to be clarified, such as which is the distance between the people and what is the contact time be significantly.
“These parameters are edited with the three competent authorities BSI for the security of the data, the RKI for the epidemiology and the data protection Commissioner for data protection”.
App uses Bluetooth wireless technology
A Corona-Warning App for Germany for weeks in the conversation. It builds on the concept of the European consortium PEP-PT. This Bluetooth wireless technology is to be used.
The App can’t prevent the infection but the Affected quickly inform if you have had contact with Infected. The use is to be voluntary.
Spahn stressed, with the App you can capture much more accurately, who you’ve met in the past 14 days, than to remember only to the contacts. They also help in the notification of the persons Concerned.
“It is very, very important that we are able to inform if someone is tested positive for Corona, quickly contacts can keep track of the last few days, and also may ask, can ask to stay at home,” said Spahn previously in the ARD morning magazine.
“This needs to be done at the Moment, manually, by phone, by Visit, by the health authorities. And such an App could make it easier of course.”
Apps to Corona-combat are currently being prepared in at least twelve European countries, or are already in use, for example in Austria or in Norway. The EU Commission had proposed on Thursday a tool box for Contact-Tracing Apps, the Apps in a kind of Roaming countries can be used across.
This goal is also followed by Google and Apple, which had announced a two-stage support of Corona-Warning-Apps starting in may. In a first stage, the two Tech giants want to post a programming job, in order to facilitate a creation of an App.
Later, the functions in the Smartphone are Android and iOS operating be installed.
Concept among privacy advocates controversial
Although the “Contact Tracing” should be in the Form of a largely anonymous pursuit of possible contacts to Infected on a voluntary Basis, advocates the concept of data and in the scientific Community, not without controversy.
“Mr. Spahn said that the App should meet the requirements that are placed on such technology,” said Kilian Holzapfel, Researcher of the physics Department (TU Munich).
The project work of PEPP-PT and the underlying data storage process is non-transparent and questionable.
The SPD MEP Birgit Sippel looks at the concept of “Contact Tracing” first of all, the fundamental rights to free movement under threat.
To use “if, for example, the right to leave the house, or the U-Bahn, to the use of an App is linked, then we can no longer speak of voluntarism,” said the Deputy, who works in the judicial Committee of the EU Parliament, leading to laws to electronic evidence, and privacy in the communication, the Portal netzpolitik.org.
The MEP Patrick Breyer (pirate party), the Parliament sits in the EU in the group of the Greens, is concerned that the Tracing Apps, to settle too many alerts.
“The Apps are likely to notify Tens or hundreds of thousands of people to work or to go grocery shopping. It is likely impossible for this to be tested. The effect can be little more than a widespread concern or even panic. In addition, human contact is only one of the risks of infection.”
Deutsche Presse-Agentur (dpa)
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