On the evening of Wednesday May 27, deputies and senators voted in favor of StopCovid. Thus, the government’s digital tracing application should be launched at the beginning of June. Objective: to more easily identify people affected by Covid-19.
It took four hours of debate in the National Assembly for it to decide in favor of the StopCovid application. On the evening of Wednesday May 27, 338 deputies finally voted for the tool on which the government is betting for the rest of the deconfinement, while 215 expressed their opposition and 21 abstained. From 9:30 p.m., senators cast their votes: 186 voted for, 127 against and 29 abstained.
Thus, StopCovid should be able to be used from the beginning of June. Validated by Cnil (National Commission for Computing and Liberties) Tuesday, May 26, the French tracking application nevertheless divides on the questions of the attack on individual freedom and the risks for personal data. Indeed, it is based on the identification of people with whom members of the population affected by Covid-19 are known. A project led by the Ministry of Health and the State Secretariat for Digital, which was announced on April 8 in an interview given to World.
All data will be “pseudonymized”
As a reminder, StopCovid is based on volunteering. Those who wish can use it to report if they have tested positive for the new coronavirus. Then, the people they have met during the previous two weeks will be notified that they have been in contact with an infected individual and will be able to act accordingly.
Operation: when the users of the application are in a business together, for example, for more than 15 minutes and less than a meter away, StopCovid records that they have crossed paths via the Bluetooth of their phone. To ensure everyone’s anonymity, all data will be “pseudonymized”, according to the government website. “Under no circumstances will you be able to identify who has been near you, or who is sick”he assures.
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