The StopCovid application aiming to trace via their smartphone the contacts of people contaminated by the coronavirus should be deployed from June 2 in France, after twenty days of testing, announced Tuesday May 5 the Secretary of State for Digital, Cedric O.

"Today, we can say that we will be ready for June 2," said Mr. O on BFM Business, adding that France was developing StopCovid without using the solutions offered by Apple or Google to protect data in particular. confidential health.

During the presentation of his deconfinement plan, Prime Minister Édouard Philippe maintained his confidence in the project, which drew criticism from among the majority, reaffirming that he wanted to submit it to a debate followed by a vote at the Assembly "when the application under development will work and before its implementation".

For Cédric O, "the development time is progressing relatively well" and the calendar is now established. "We will enter the test phase next week, that is to say that we will reproduce real situations to verify that the application is working well. This would allow us, if the Prime Minister and the conference of presidents of the assemblies decide to do so, so that we can come back to the parliamentarians (...) in the week of May 25 to consider a deployment during the second phase of deconfinement from June 2. "

No partnership with Apple or Google

The secretary of state anticipates that the National Commission for Information Technology and Liberties (Cnil) will also be able to pronounce on the subject by the end of May.

It now excludes a partnership with the American giants Apple and Google, which control the two large global application stores (App store and Google Play store) and want to quickly offer a common base for a contact tracking application.

"We have refused" the solutions from Apple and Google "which, in our opinion, pose a number of problems in terms of privacy protection and in terms of interconnection with the healthcare system," explained Cédric O.

"It is for these problems, not because Apple and Google are big bad wolves, that we refused to go through their solutions. We will have a solution that will work very satisfactorily on all phones and we consider that the control of the health system, the fight against the coronavirus, it is the business of the States (...), not necessarily that of large American companies ", added the Secretary of State for Digital.

With AFP

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