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The Cnil offers a respite to the StopCovid app, shunned by the French

2020-09-04T15:12:23.162Z


The authority puts an end to its control procedure after having noted that the digital tool better respects the privacy of its rare users.


Updates and especially a compliance.

Guardian of data protection, the National Commission for Informatics and Liberties (Cnil) has just affixed a “good for service” stamp to the StopCovid tracking application.

The authority put an end to a formal notice procedure started in July after having carried out extensive technical inspections.

Criticized for its intrusive nature, the first version of StopCovid, launched in June for Android and iPhone, was pinned because it was collecting more data than necessary for its objective: to break the chains of contamination.

"The elements of response provided by the Ministry (of Health) during the month of August have made it possible to demonstrate that the shortcomings observed" during checks by the Cnil "had ceased", said Friday the guardian of privacy digital French, in a press release.

Among the grievances retained, the CNIL criticized the application in particular for reporting - without distinction - to the central server all the pseudonyms of people crossed by a user discovering himself contaminated and collected via the Bluetooth of his smartphone.

The system then had to sort and establish a remote list of contact cases at risk, those that had been too close for too long.

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Now, this sorting is done in the infected user's smartphone, limiting the information sent back to the central server.

The processing of part of the data by the device is the bias taken by most of the European applications related to StopCovid.

A sluggish start

The application no longer uses Google's “reCaptcha” filtering system, which prevents robots from registering on the application.

These corrections, which gave rise to an update at the end of July and another in mid-August, will they be enough to convince the most reluctant to adopt the application which caps at 2.5 million downloads?

Although this is no longer his file, the Secretary of State for Digital Cédric O rejected the idea that the application could be a failure, but admitted that it had not been downloaded enough.

“We need to see what we're doing with Olivier Véran (the Minister of Health): are we re-communicating, do we need more teaching?

», He said on Sud Radio.

"In any case, at a time when the epidemic is starting again, it would be very useful if there were a lot more people" who downloaded it ".

The CNIL has assured that it will continue its checks until the application and the data it has collected disappear.

Source: leparis

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