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May 25, 2020The Immuni contact tracing app "will be available between 10-15 days in early June," said Pierpaolo Sileri, deputy minister of health, in a television broadcast.  

"The immune app - he added - is part of a reorganization of territorial medicine and preventive medicine, it is a very important tracing and when it is active it will give further information on tracing and spreading the disease".

Sileri does not welcome the idea of ​​an "ambitious but impractical" health passport, he said about the idea launched by the Sicilian Region and Sardinia. "Uniformity is needed throughout the territory and at the moment I see it very difficult. Let's first reopen leaving this virus behind us respecting the rules," said the deputy minister.

Published code
In view of the release of Immuni, the Ministry of Innovation, as promised, has published the codes of the app on Github, the platform where developers from all over the world can discuss specific projects. The documents on the operation of the contact tracing app software chosen by the government have been uploaded: the source code of the application was the last part of Immuni that is not yet public. 

Last May 16th technical specifications on the functioning of the app were also published on Github , while on May 20th  Google and Apple released the update of their software - on which Immuni is based  - to facilitate communication between apps and Android devices and iOS via Bluetooth, which promotes the development of national applications compatible with the health systems of the European Union countries.

The decentralized model of Google and Apple provides that the collected data is stored on individual devices and not on a central server; the movements from the GPS will not be tracked but only some of the significant contacts over time between smartphones. 

Privacy and security issues
Accepted the requests of the Authority for the protection of personal data: "The documentation relating to the evaluation of the privacy impact that the Ministry of Health has made on the app is about to arrive to the Guarantor, on which we will have to promptly express an opinion ", said the Privacy Guarantor Antonello Soro, in a hearing in the Chamber of Deputies. 

"At present the rule that the government has sent to the chambers responds to the requests that we made , of voluntary and preferential choice with respect to the possible alternative of data centralization and the geolocation that we had advised against is not foreseen because it is more invasive from the point of view of data protection is less effective. " 

However, the possible evaluation of Copasir on the app is still to be defined . In a report to Parliament last May 16, the Committee for the Security of the Republic in a report stressed that the Immuni contact tracing app has several "critical aspects" that should be corrected, "to prevent the effectiveness of the initiative it is reduced, and, above all, that risks related to the transmission of citizens' data, in order to respect privacy and the security of personal data, and in particular to the overall management, from an epidemiological point of view, of the sanitary emergency".