According to Cedric O, secretary of State renewed the Digital, between 2 and 2.5 million people have downloaded the application tracing of contacts StopCovid. But it is still “too early” to ” make the balance sheet “. “It must be between 2 million and 2.5 million people who have downloaded StopCovid,” said Thursday, July 30, the secretary of State on the plateau of CNews. “I confess to you that it is a little difficult to make an assessment, it is a bit early. “I think that we will not be unhappy if the epidemic comes back to have this tool in the wide range of health responses “, he added.
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in Charge of Digital since April of 2019, Cedric O had its baptism of fire policy with the application StopCovid against the coronavirus. He was re-Sunday with an expanded portfolio in the digital Transition and to electronic Communications. The application is controversial, both in principle and in the technical choices made by the government, its opponents arguing in particular that it is not sufficiently relevant to the risks it entails, especially in terms of protection of personal data. It keeps a track of all the people to cross during the last 15 days, less than a meter.
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last week, the guardian of the privacy of the French, the Cnil, had asked the government to set “multiple irregularities” concerning the application ” within one month “. Put into service in early June when the epidemic was in the descending phase, the application is little used, with results at the end of two weeks insignificant (14 reports of risk of contamination).
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