While brandishing their attachment to respect for private life, Germany and France, among others, are working on the implementation of so-called "contact tracing" applications. They could be inspired by the open source initiative "Trace Together" deployed in Singapore. Decryption in this program.

Also in the summary of this program: in these quarantine times, we go to meet a citizen hacker. Ethical pirate, Gaël Musquet co-founded the NGO HAND (Hackers Against Natural Disasters). He puts his maker methods at the service of populations in a climate or health emergency. What are his tips? It inaugurates our sequence "Hacker the crisis".

In France, containment is a headache for white areas. Six million French people live in these regions where internet speed is low or even nonexistent. For them, teleworking is idling. Report with our colleagues from France 3.

Finally, for those who can telecommute, video conferencing platforms are a new reflex. Among them, the American Zoom. The app registers a boom in a few days, going from 10 million to 200 million active daily users. A super progression that does not hide criticism of security vulnerabilities ... What are the European alternatives, such as the open-source platform Jitsi for example? Demonstration with Guillaume Grallet.

>> To read: "Zoom, the video app in defiance of privacy?"

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