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Explanatory video for the Luca app:
»And this is how it works ... You do check-ins. With friends. At family gatherings. In the office. And later also in restaurants, cinemas, museums or at concerts. In the event of an infection, you can send all of your check-ins to the health department at lightning speed and this immediately informs everyone who has been in contact with you. "
In case you haven't recognized the voice yet: This is the rapper Smudo from the "Fantastischen Vier".
The hip-hop group is part of the initiative for the Luca app;
Smudo aggressively advertises the application.
It is a response to the government's official corona warning app.
Because it is considered a flop.
At the beginning of March there was a lot of hype about the Luca app.
It is intended to facilitate contact tracking.
Smudo, rapper of the Fantastischen Vier:
"So I'll go and take the subway to my girlfriend, I'll check it out with Luca. Beep, beep. Then I'll meet my girlfriend with grandma. Private meeting. Beep. Then go we into the taxi, beep, go to the restaurant, beep. Then I go home. The next day I would like to go to the Fantas at the concert: 4,000 people, because I come in with testing - thanks to the system. Then I go across the street, too New idea, to the pharmacy or drugstore, where I can do a valid, document-proof test. I spit in the glass, p. positive. Then everyone automatically gets it, everyone in the Luca system: subway, taxi, grandma , Restaurant. "
In contrast to the Corona warning app, Luca requires registration, including a telephone number.
Nevertheless, data protection is guaranteed.
The idea of mandatory digital documentation is not new.
The implementation has been the problem so far, explains Patrick Hennig, head of the Luca developer company Nexenio.
Patrick Hennig, founder of Nexenio:
"You can just imagine that there are 1,000 people sitting in a stadium and at the end a health department receives 1,000 contact details. Who should call them? An automated process is needed. And Luca does that. And there we are not aware of any other solution that is exactly in the field. "
However, a discussion has broken out online about how secure Luca's data is.
Critics complain that the app's code is not public and therefore many questions remain unanswered.
Several federal states actually wanted to recommend the app to everyone for use at the beginning of this week.
But this decision has been postponed for the time being.
