Why are the time and place of a risk encounter not displayed in the Corona warning app?
What does it mean if someone is shown seven low-risk encounters, for example?
And how can it be that you hear unhelpful sentences on the Corona telephone hotline such as "We don't work with the app"?
Users ask questions like this about the app, for example in the Google Play Store or on gutefrage.net.
The SPIEGEL editorial team also repeatedly receives e-mails from readers who ask how the app works or why it doesn't work as intended.
Anke-Domscheit-Berg from the Left Party in the Bundestag and Manuel Höferlin from the FDP Group answer these questions in the podcast.
The two specialist politicians are familiar with the intricacies of the Corona warning app and the associated infrastructure.
They support the goal of the app and its data-saving approach, but do not save with criticism of the federal government, its planning and communication.
Nevertheless, says Domscheit-Berg in an interview, it is important not only to talk about what is going wrong, but also about what is going to work: “For example, after a red warning from the app I was testing the app at 10 a.m. on a Friday Doctor's office.
And at 5 p.m. I had the test result in the app.
The result was negative, so I was able to spend a relaxing weekend. "
This is what the "power supply" is all about
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This episode is the sixth of the fourth season of the »Power Supply« podcast, in which the editors of the Netzwelt department devote themselves to various technology topics.
Season four is again about real questions from internet users on topics such as quantum computers, OnlyFans and Wikipedia.
The editors answer them together with experts.
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