Posted on 04/17/2020 7:54:17 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
BERLIN - A European technology platform to support smartphone apps that can help trace people at risk of infection by the new coronavirus is gaining support from governments, one of its prime movers said on Friday.
Seven countries have either formally supported the Pan-European Privacy Preserving Proximity Tracing initiative or tasked one of its members with developing a national app, German tech entrepreneur Chris Boos told Reuters.
PEPP-PT has emerged as a leading proponent of the use of Bluetooth short-range communications between personal devices as a proxy for measuring the risk that a person infected with coronavirus can pass it on.
“A lot of larger countries have dedicated their app teams to build on top of what we’re supplying,” Boos, a co-initiator of PEPP-PT and founder of business automation startup Arago, said in an interview.
He listed Austria, Germany, France, Italy, Malta, Spain and Switzerland, adding that another 40 countries had registered and were in the process of being brought onboard.
More than 200 scientists and technologists are collaborating on PEPP-PT, conceived as the backbone for national apps that would comply with Europe’s strict privacy rules and be able to “talk” to each other across borders.
Automating the assessment of who is at risk and telling them to see a doctor, get tested or self isolate, is seen by advocates as a way to speed up a painstaking task that typically entails phone calls and door knocks.
(Excerpt) Read more at reuters.com ...
No thanks
the next murderous dictatorship will start just like this with technological surveillance of every one of us
get prepared to defend against this!
CW3 is so very close you can feel its hot breath at the back of your neck
if HilLIARy or Pelousy or FakeInjunSquaw or any of several more commie=nazi=leftists were in the WH, the dictatorship would now be in place, that’s how close we came ... and it was a very close election in the 3 keys states that finally put PDJT in office, it was a very close call for us all imho)
I’d take a hammer to my cell phone, cancel my service, and go back to a landline.
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