Germany flips to Apple-Google approach on smartphone contact tracing

This consent would be given in the app, however, and not be part of the system's central architecture.Germany as recently as Friday backed a centralised standard called Pan-European Privacy-Preserving Proximity Tracing , which would have needed Apple in particular to change the settings on its iPhones.

"This app should be voluntary, meet data protection standards and guarantee a high level of IT security," they said."The main epidemiological goal is to recognise and break chains of infection as soon as possible." The tide was already running against PEPP-PT and its main backer, German tech entrepreneur Chris Boos, as collaborators pulled out, faulting its methodology and its slowness to open up its work to wider scrutiny.One of the members of PEPP-PT, Germany's Fraunhofer HHI research institute, was told on Saturday that it had been taken off the project, correspondence seen by Reuters showed.

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