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"We anticipated the fiasco that StopCovid was going to be." Baptiste Robert, cybersecurity researcher, does not mince his words at the microphone of Europe 1 concerning the government's application of contact tracing to fight against the coronavirus pandemic. It must be said that a little more than a week after its launch, the application has accumulated less than 1.5 million activations. Concretely, only 2% of the population uses this tool which must help to identify and fight against the chains of contamination.
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An application available too late in the crisis
Failure also confirmed by the exclusive BVA poll for Europe 1 and Orange released Thursday night, which states in addition that 66% of French do not intend to download the application. According to Baptiste Robert, this unpopularity is mainly linked to the late arrival of the tool in the crisis. As a result, few people have downloaded it and even fewer use it, almost negating its usefulness, since its effectiveness depends on the number of people who activated the device. "This application, which is not used by anyone, has very little effect," confirms the researcher.
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A "handful" of notifications
Even the standard-bearer of the project, the Secretary of State for Digital Cédric O, recognizes that StopCovid has only given rise to "a handful" of notifications, which alert of the crossing of a contact case a posteriori . A completely normal result to believe Baptiste Robert, since "you have to stay 15 minutes within one meter of an [infected] person to emit one. This is the type of situation that does not happen. almost never in a day. "
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Despite everything, the government wants to believe in the usefulness of its application and even wants to push the French to have it activated in a corner of their smartphone in the event of a second epidemic wave. An argument that seems to crumble over the days. The scenario of a second wave moves away in view of the different daily reports of the coronavirus in France since the deconfinement.