In the fight against Covid-19, should France use the digital tracking of its voluntary citizens, to trace the history of their social relationships and warn them if they have encountered a patient who tested positive? Considered by the government, this prospect arouses the circumspection of the political class.
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The majority seems more than ever fractured between its left pole, which does not want it, and the intangible supports of the executive. While LREM deputies will debate it during a videoconference meeting on Thursday, several executives of the presidential party have already expressed their distrust of the tracing. Starting with Sacha Houlié, who on Tuesday expressed opposition to such a scenario, with the Sunday Journal . "I will vote against any measure which goes in this direction. If the decision is made to establish tracking, I will control [its] application by the executive, " insisted Tuesday the deputy La République en Marche (LREM) from Vienne, on Europe 1.
Stéphane Séjourné, said in Le Parisien that "it is wrong to think that Big Brother can save us", with reference to the character in the novel "1984" by Georges OrwellThe elected representative
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