A European coalition is forming around an approach to using smartphone technology to trace coronavirus infections that, its backers hope, could help to reopen borders without unleashing a second wave of the pandemic. Britain and France argue people should trust their health authorities to hold such information on a central computer server. "Interoperability of proximity tracing apps across borders is crucial," saidOf the European coalition, only Austria has so far rolled out an app. They say any discrimination — for example making access to a workplace contingent on using an app — should be illegal. Adopting proximity tracing apps should be seen as an act of altruism to help protect others from infection, argues Carmela Troncoso, a computer scientist at Lausanne who has been involved in designing and coding DP-3T.

Source: CBC News May 07, 2020 14:37 UTC