Pan-European group plans cross-border contact-tracing app – and promises GDPR compliance

Pan-European group plans cross-border contact-tracing app – and promises GDPR compliance

As India joins the list of nations offering Bluetooth-enabled virus-visit-visualisers


A European consortium based in Switzerland plans to this week launch an opt-in location-detecting app to expedite contact-tracing those who have encountered coronavirus carriers.


The new group, named Pan-European Privacy-Preserving Proximity Tracing (PEPP-PT), promises a GDPR-compliant app that sounds a lot like Singapore’s TraceTogether service, but also offers considerable detail on how the service is designed to preserve privacy.


As outlined in an explainer : “All procedures, mechanisms, standards and code at PEPP-PT is continuously monitored by our security team. In parallel national national cyber security agencies and national data protection agencies inspect all of the above line-by-line on a regular basis and sign. We have always asked and continue to m ..

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