German Government Releases New Coronavirus Contact Tracking App
`` New Coronavirus for tracking and notifying people who may have contacted people infected with the new coronavirus infection (COVID-19) on 16th June 2020 (Tuesday) local time ' Warning app ' has been released. The German government claims that it is 'very safe for government ministers to use,' but at the same time advocates the need for wearing a mask, saying 'the app is not a panacea.'
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The new German coronavirus alert app can be installed from the App Store and Google Play .
Countries around the world are trying to extinguish the threat of the new coronavirus with strategies to keep cities locked (locked down) and keep social distance (social distance). However,
The new coronavirus warning app released by the German government is expected as an important tool to prevent such a second wave of the new coronavirus. As a function, like other contact tracking apps, by notifying people who have contact with people who may have been infected with the new coronavirus, 'I may be infected with the new coronavirus', It is an application that aims to prevent the spread of infected people.
However, the European Union (EU) has the
The new coronavirus warning app is 'a special challenge for Germany,' according to the Associated Press, as the rights to personal information in Germany are protected by law even after death. In fact, when the German government proposed to use the base station information and GPS information used by smartphones in the new coronavirus warning app, a big backlash was immediately generated. ``The idea of tracking where people are in real time is reminiscent of China's surveillance system,'' explains Frederick Richter, head of the Independent Data Protection Foundation, explaining why the rally took place in Germany. did. In addition, the Associated Press said, 'The collection of personal information by the government reminds us of the past when the government collected a large amount of personal information to persecute dissidents during Nazi Germany and the German Democratic Republic (East Germany) era. I also point out.
Therefore, the new coronavirus warning application by the German government takes a method to detect terminals that are nearby by Bluetooth without using location information and identify 'person who may have contact with infected person'. It is being done. This is a method similar to the new coronavirus contact tracking system jointly developed by Apple and Google. In addition, the German government's new coronavirus warning application is designed to warn people who may have been in contact with a person infected with the new coronavirus for at least 15 minutes as ``may be infected'' ..
The app's developers claim that the latest tests have identified with 80% accuracy a person who may have had a heavy contact with the infected person, but it has been confirmed that people who were in contact with the infected person but were not notified However, it seems that some people were notified that they may be infected, even though they were more than 2 meters away, which is the standard for social distance. 'The app is not a panacea, but it will be an important tool in controlling pandemics,' said German health minister Jens Spahn, who will continue to need to wear face masks and manually track contacts. I argue.
According to the German government, 20 million euros (about 2.4 billion yen) has been invested in the development of the new coronavirus warning application, and 2.5 million to 3.5 million euros (about 300 to 420 million yen monthly) to maintain the system ) Is required. As the German government claims to be 'very safe for government ministers to use,' the new German coronavirus alert app does not centrally manage the information collected by the app on the server, but only on the terminal. I will. Therefore, privacy is being protected and President
In Germany, measures against the new coronavirus are more successful than in other neighboring countries, and the number of deaths due to the new coronavirus is suppressed to about one-fifth of the UK and one-quarter of Italy. According to the Johns Hopkins University, as of June 2020, there were approximately 190,000 cases of new coronavirus infection in Germany and 8800 deaths.
In addition, according to a poll by the German Public Broadcasting Federation , 42% of the people answered that they would 'use' the new coronavirus warning app by the government, more than those who did not (39%). It is clear.
The EU is also developing a new coronavirus contact tracking app that works across borders, and the app will also be linked with a new coronavirus alert app developed by the German government. However, since the data of the new coronavirus contact tracking app by the French government is centrally managed on the server, it may not be possible to work with the new coronavirus contact tracking app of the EU.
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