worldwide, monitoring applications It is popular with governments to help combat the spread of the coronavirus. And for good reason: ease of use, in principle, does not envy anything about their effectiveness. As a free trade and free movement country, Europe is clearly subject to the risk of contagion between countries. Therefore, under the encouragement of the European Commission, various apps across the continent will soon be communicating with each other.
With 30 million downloads Altogether its own implementations, namely only two-thirds of the European Union, Germany, Ireland and Italy are the first countries to test this new device. In comparison, France has 2.3 million downloads (for only 72 notifications sent). From next week, the Czech Republic, Denmark, Latvia and Spain will join the interconnected apps, reaching nearly twenty countries in the future.
Purpose: Unite against Covid-19
FranceRenewing its own app recently by renaming it “Tous Anti-Covid”, will not join device. The reason: The app is “homemade” and therefore does not use the Google and Apple API required to connect to others. Only Hungary is in the same situation.
And that’s pretty unfortunate. According to Thierry Breton, European Commissioner for the Internal Market“Free movement is an integral part of the single market. While the pedestrian bridge makes things easier, it also helps save lives.”. This famous “gateway” will be hosted in a data center in Luxembourg and will remain active until a vaccine is found.
The goal is simple: Make life easier by having Europeans download only one app on the go, ensuring that everything works in harmony. For those concerned about the protection of their data, the Commission says: “change […] with gateway server [sera] minimized. The server will efficiently receive and transmit random IDs between national applications. No information is processed by the gateway, except for random keys generated by applications. »
The virus does not stop at the borders.
We have set up an EU-wide system to enable national coronavirus apps to interact with each other to exploit the full potential of monitoring apps.
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