Olivier Véran announced on Saturday, May 2: the application StopCovid It will not be ready for the start of containment on May 11. On the other hand, the project is still on track and the government has announced an availability date through the Minister of State for Digital. If all goes according to government plans, the app will be available in less than a month.
The application will need to go through the assembly and Cnil before it can be distributed.
The StopCovid app is indeed on the verge of becoming reality, if we had any doubts that it was launched even yesterday. The current Minister of State for Digital, Cédric O, announced this on the microphone of BFM Business. The development of the app is progressing “relatively well”. As such, it is expected to enter the testing phase “as early as next week”. If all goes as planned during the tests, the Secretary of State hopes to present the application to parliamentarians during the “week of May 25”.
The government plans to deploy the app after it is approved by parliament. from June 2, during the second phase of decontinence. The main interested party also returned to the need for approval by the CNIL (National Commission on Computing and Freedoms). “Cnil will also have to decide, as explained. We still have an important technical roadmap. We really need to pass the tests starting next week to make sure it works well in the field, doesn’t report too much, is well connected to each other. the entire healthcare system. But today we can say to ourselves that we will be ready for June 2,” he said.
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Note that the primary purpose of the app is to identify people affected by the coronavirus and those who have come into contact with them. Thus, those who meet the patients are informed. Cédric O reminded that the development of the application was done without the help of Apple and Google. If the purpose of the app is to offer an effective means of combating COVID-19, it still raises questions about the idea of generalized surveillance. There is no doubt that the Parliament and the CNIL will play a fundamental role in its adoption.
Source : BFM Business
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