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Coronavirus: the executive opens the way to "tracking"

2020-04-06T18:28:03.851Z


The government is preparing people to use personal data in the context of the health crisis.


What will be the French strategy in terms of "tracking"? Up to now excluded, the use of personal data from smartphones to track people infected with the coronavirus, implemented in several Asian and European countries, is part of the tools that the government is studying to fight the epidemic and prepare a progressive deconfinement.

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The executive's about-face in this matter is striking. Because on March 26, on France 2, the Minister of the Interior swept the hypothesis in these terms: "It is not our wish (...) I believe that it is not French culture." The same Christophe Castaner, ten days later, still on France 2, now ensures that tracking "will be retained and supported by all French people" on condition of respecting individual freedoms and fighting against the virus. Will it be used on a voluntary basis, as the Prime Minister assured last week? Again, the speech is not clear. "I can not

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Source: lefigaro

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