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Weimar (dpa / th) - The city of Weimar has announced that it will buy the Luca app for digital contact tracking in the corona pandemic.
"The Luca app should give shops, companies, organizers, museums and many other institutions in Weimar an opening perspective," said Mayor Peter Kleine (independent) on Monday.
He hoped that the population would be very willing to participate.
The health department can interrupt chains of infection more quickly with the app, it said.
In addition, the app meets high data protection standards and is already used by several federal states.
However, the state data protection officer Lutz Hasse had asked municipalities in a letter on Friday not to introduce the app yet.
For example, security gaps could be found in the planned disclosure of the app's source code.
In an earlier letter from his house to the Left parliamentary group in the state parliament, however, it had been stated that there were no concerns about the app from a data security perspective.
Prime Minister Bodo Ramelow (left) criticized the contradicting statements at the weekend and said that he would follow the statement in the letter to the parliamentary group.
Meanwhile, the city of Jena is already using the application for digital contact tracking and announced on Monday that it would continue to do so.
The urban crisis team continues to orientate itself on Hasses earlier assessment of the app.
"We were Luca users from the very beginning and are convinced that Luca is exactly the right app for digital contact tracking because it offers the important connection to the Sormas system," said Mayor Thomas Nitzsche (FDP).
Sormas is the computer system that Jena's health department is working with during the pandemic.
Nevertheless, Nitzsche called for a quick and binding perspective for using the app.
"This is the only way we can increase user confidence."
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