German soldiers test PEPP-PT smart phone app

A handout photo made available by German Armed Forces Bundeswehr shows soldiers during a test of a smart phone app using Pan-European Privacy-Preserving Proximity Tracing (PEPP-PT) at the Julius Leber Barracks in Berlin, Germany.

The European project ‘Pan European Privacy Protecting Proximity Tracing’ app shows if the user is near a person who has been tested positive for the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus which causes the Covid-19 disease.

According to the initiative, if ‘a user of phone A has been confirmed to be SARS-CoV-2 positive, the health authorities will contact user A and provide a TAN code to the user that ensures possible malware cannot inject incorrect infection information into the PEPP-PT system.

The user uses the given TAN code to voluntarily provide information to the national trust service that allows the notification of PEPP-PT apps recorded in the proximity history and therefore potentially infected. Since this history contains anonymous identifiers, neither person can be aware of the other’s identity’.

 

Via EPA-EFE/TORSTEN KRAATZ / BUNDESWEHR

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