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StopCovid application: can France really do without Apple?

2020-05-09T10:24:16.144Z


VERIFICATION - Rather than going through the API developed by Apple and Google, France has chosen its own protocol for the contact tracking application


THE QUESTION. For its contact tracing application, the StopCovid project, the French government has taken a number of technological options. They are often summarized in a short sentence, "France wants to do without Apple for StopCovid". But can it really?

In principle, no. Difficult to do without a manufacturer who represents 15 to 20% of the French smartphone market. Especially when you want to set up a contact tracing application, which, as part of the deconfinement, must allow a broad monitoring of the population and alert of a possible meeting with a carrier of Coronavirus.

Read also: Coronavirus: is the fear of a second epidemic wave justified?

Basically, the question (and therefore the answer) is more complicated than that. Apple and Google offer an application programming interface for government health authorities. This API allows the development of tracking applications, provided that you subscribe to the protocol chosen by Apple and Google. Who is not

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Source: lefigaro

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