A woman wearing a protective mask uses her mobile phone, as a coronavirus outbreak continues to grow in northern Italy, in Turin, Italy. As the GDPR makes it difficult to use smartphone location data to fight Covid-19, a more promising route is to track connections made between people's smartphones using Bluetooth, a communications technology where 'handshakes' between devices can be logged and used to alert those who have come into close proximity with someone who tests positive. — Reuters
BERLIN: European scientists and technologists will launch a joint initiative on April 1 to support the use of digital applications in the fight against coronavirus while complying with the region's tough privacy laws.
The Pan-European Privacy Preserving Proximity Tracing (PEPP-PT) brings together 130 researchers from eight countries to develop applications that can support contact tracing efforts within countries and across borders.
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