StopCovid: loss of freedom?

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The project called StopCovid is a smartphone application whose aim is to "limit the spread of Covid-19". Illustration photo Olivier DOULIERY / AFP

By: Romain Auzouy

Lauded by the French government, the StopCovid digital tracing application should be available from next Tuesday (June 2, 2020), as part of the second phase of deconfinement.

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This downloadable tool on a smartphone must make it possible to determine whether a person may have been in contact with a coronavirus patient. But StopCovid raises many questions related to the respect of freedoms: for the implementation of such an application, what data will be collected? For what purposes? Critics compare StopCovid to an electronic bracelet. What should be the limits in the name of the fight against the Covid-19? This is the question of the day.

To discuss it :
- Philippe Bas , senator (LR) from La Manche, president of the Law Commission, president of the monitoring committee of the state of health emergency
- Éric Filiol , expert in cryptology and computer virology. He teaches at the National School of Engineering of South Brittany (ENSIBS) and at the University of Moscow
- Kamel Ajji,  doctoral student in Law at Paris 2 Panthéon-Assas and researcher affiliated with the Information Project Society of Yale.

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