France has asked Apple to approve it Any app to access Bluetooth for our devices at all times presenting your application against a coronavirus. According to digital economy minister, Cedric O, France wants to launch the app on May 11.
Privacy and security, the most important balance
Before entering the study, it is worth clarifying a few points. With the API used by Apple and Google, the system will be in charge of managing communication between devices (and their users). The system will take care of access to blue, exchange of keys, compare direct contacts, etc. In this sense, this API will work as a completely separate and independent application
The importance of applications lies in the fact that they are ways, as users, that we can request for the program turn on tracking contacts and sign up for notifications to good contacts. In addition, the app will provide relevant information such as issues with outbreaks or health care facilities.
This API will arrive in May, probably at the time of launch of an app developed by France and scheduled to launch on May 11. So what does the French government ask? Digital economy minister, Cederic O, expressed the following:
We ask Apple to raise a technical barrier that allows us to produce a European health solution that will bind our healthcare system. Ministers discussed their problems with Apple, but they did not move forward.
From this we can say that the app that France has developed wants to install the API proposed by Apple and Google and has the right to personalize Bluetooth information. This access, which is not allowed in Apple apps, will allow the app use its monitoring system and gather huge amounts of data which would later be sent to the central server.
Any society that deprives them of the right to safety is also unworthy. – Benjamin Franklin
Any program that allows data to be sent to a central server is more secure than the solution presented by Apple and Google, as it can allow for individual identification. More than 300 students of nationality have signed the book this past Monday backed Apple's proposal with the Google API. A system where we do not have to sacrifice our privacy and security in order to receive the benefits of a communications plan.
At the moment we will wait for the development of events, but one thing is clear, offering freedom and rights to think like security seems like a risky bet. Include some practical and developmental ways to be able to offer both.
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