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Coronavirus: the StopCovid application soon to be buried?

2020-05-15T12:35:08.088Z


The controversial tracking application is still not operational and the opportunity to complete the project no longer seems so obvious


The idea had been launched in the limelight, causing the first bursts of voice from containment among the majority. Will the StopCovid app project end in limbo? "Is this scenario still relevant today?" Annoys the entourage of Cédric O, Secretary of State for Digital. Admittedly, at Matignon, we ensure that the development process "takes its course". But in fact, behind the scenes, few are predicting a flourishing future for him.

A sign ? After last month's surge in tension within the LREM group, some of its protesters no longer feel it necessary (at this time) to fight ardently. "I have long believed that this will be buried. This creates unnecessary fractures within the majority, without winning the assent of the French, ”sweeps one of them. A macronist observes, "the pressure has dropped considerably and there is less waiting".

The reservations tinged with caution by the President and the Prime Minister on digital tracing have not escaped anyone. "I am convinced that with the establishment of the health brigades wanted by Olivier Véran, there is no longer any need," said MEP Sacha Houlié, using European examples as support: "Belgium is happened, the Italians had code problems, the Dutch hacking ... "Close the ban?

"Unlikely that people will download it en masse"

In Bercy, Cédric O is determined to deny those who do not see his mission go to the end. "The debate and the vote in Parliament will take place. There is no doubt about it, ”swears those around him. Thursday evening, before Jurem, an association of lawyers close to LREM, the Secretary of State clarified that the Parliament would be invited to give an opinion on the application "on May 26 and 27". But at the moment, the discussion is however not written black on white on the agenda of the assemblies for May. "As far as it is successful ..." slips an adviser.

Again, O's teams defend themselves, ensuring they keep the schedule, referring to "a series of tests in progress" or the tweaking of the interface. And even the beta version of the application installed on the Secretary of State's phone. “The objective is that it is ready. Then there is a political decision and a health decision that will be taken, ”we conclude, by giving an appointment on June 2.

Or, three weeks after the start of deconfinement ... Too late? "She arrives at the wrong time. It is unlikely that people will download it en masse on the day of its release, when it takes 60% of the population for it to work, "deciphers a majority parliamentarian. In sum, summarizes an adviser of the executive, "she was not ready at the moment T when she could perhaps have won and the more we move away from May 11" ...

“If the work is still in progress, it is because we consider that it can be an additional tool. Whether it is this week, the next or in five weeks, if a tool can be useful, it should not be put aside, "we defend nevertheless at Matignon, where we take care to hammer that" we does not want to dismiss any side track to fight the epidemic. " "The main thing, insists a ministerial collaborator, is that this happens at a time when it is operational and that it is consistent with our values". How not to grind the opposition on the theme of inaction or unpreparedness. Until we know if this tool is "usable and used", as a government adviser says.

Source: leparis

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