The debate on the StopCovid project would be "premature", but it will take place, said the Prime Minister on Tuesday. Edouard Philippe announced "a specific debate and vote" on this sensitive project of tracing mobile data, when the application "will work and before its implementation".
Questions of public liberties “seem to me to be well founded. They must be asked. They must be debated, "stressed the Prime Minister before the National Assembly, about this application which is causing criticism even among the majority. "For now, given the uncertainties about this application, I would be hard pressed to tell you if it works, and how it will work precisely. So it seems to me that this debate is premature, ”said Edouard Philippe.
Not ready yet
"But I confirm my commitment: when the application under development will work and before its implementation, we will organize a specific debate, followed by a specific vote", he assured. Inspired by tools deployed in countries like Singapore, this tracking device should make it possible to alert people who have been in contact with patients with coronavirus.
But even if this application worked on a voluntary basis, it is criticized even in the LREM ranks for its risks concerning the privacy of users. Sunday, the National Commission for Data Protection (Cnil) gave the green light in principle, while asking for certain "additional guarantees".
Several LREM parliamentarians had stressed that the application was not technically ready at this stage. "It is not ready and it will surely be gently buried. French-style, ”said a LREM deputy on Monday evening, AFP said.
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