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Luca app: Critics, country and operator exchange ideas

2022-01-24T05:08:58.187Z


Luca app: Critics, country and operator exchange ideas Created: 2022-01-24Updated: 2022-01-24 06:02 A barcode that can be scanned with the Luca app is held up to the camera. © Marijan Murat/dpa/archive image The Luca app is intended to help in Baden-Württemberg to track corona contacts. Critics doubt that the software is really necessary. That's why the country now wants to question users as we


Luca app: Critics, country and operator exchange ideas

Created: 2022-01-24Updated: 2022-01-24 06:02

A barcode that can be scanned with the Luca app is held up to the camera.

© Marijan Murat/dpa/archive image

The Luca app is intended to help in Baden-Württemberg to track corona contacts.

Critics doubt that the software is really necessary.

That's why the country now wants to question users as well as operators, competitors and computer experts - and then decide.

Stuttgart – Before a decision is made about further use of the Luca app for contact tracing in the corona pandemic, the state wants to bring critics, operators and health authorities together.

In addition to the experts from the Freiburg Chaos Computer Club, the German Hotel and Restaurant Association (Dehoga) as spokesman for the restaurateurs and representatives of the state Corona warning app are to take part in the public exchange on Monday (10 a.m.).

In almost all federal states with a license, consultations are currently taking place as to whether the contract with the software operators should be extended.

According to the State Ministry of Health, Baden-Württemberg wants to make a decision by the end of February.

Few others have already decided to no longer rely on the app.

The Luca app is intended to help restaurant owners and event organizers to complete the legally required recording of visitor contacts without paperwork.

It can be connected directly to the health authorities.

Vaccination certificates can also be stored in the app.

According to the operators, the data can only be made available if the respective health department and the respective company simultaneously give their consent in the event of an infection and use their individual keys to decrypt the data.

The federal government's Corona warning app can, in turn, inform citizens about a possible risk of infection.

The Luca software, in which the rapper Smudo ("Die Fantastischen Vier") is involved, was heavily criticized from the start.

The app recently sparked discussions because the police in Mainz used data from the app to investigate a fatal fall in a restaurant - but the legal basis was not sufficient for that.

The Chaos Computer Club (CCC), among others, had complained that the use of the Luca software was questionable.

"We find that almost no health department in Germany uses the Luca app," said Jens Rieger from CCC Freiburg before the meeting on Monday.

"Anyone who believes that the contract with the operators should be extended must be able to explain how the costs can be justified given this low use."

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But the app also has structural flaws, said Rieger.

“The procedures are too cumbersome in a process where everything has to happen quickly.

It makes more sense to use the Corona warning app as part of a package of measures against the pandemic.

Dehoga also recently asked the state to lift the obligation to record guest contact data in the catering and hotel industry.

It is enormously complex and in practice does not make an effective contribution to containing the pandemic.

Very little happens with the collected data.

"The cost and benefit of the obligation to record guest contact data in the hospitality industry are no longer in a reasonable relationship," the association explained in a position paper.

The Baden-Württemberg state government, on the other hand, recently emphasized that the app is a “good and data protection-compliant component” of provision.

The health authorities in the country are “very satisfied with the Luca app”.

Baden-Württemberg acquired the app in the spring for 3.7 million euros without a call for tenders or a competitive process.

According to earlier information from the authority, the license expires at the end of March and will be automatically continued without notice of termination.

Actually, the country had wanted to make a decision by the end of last year and "on the basis of the experiences made up to that point and the requirements that would then still be necessary".

dpa

Source: merkur

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