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After a first app failure (stopcovid19), France uses the ROBERT protocol in its second app TousAntiCOVID (which is just a rebrand+slight pivot into focused news
by lloeki 6y ago
After a first app failure (stopcovid19), France uses the ROBERT protocol in its second app TousAntiCOVID (which is just a rebrand+slight pivot into focused news); apparently the protocol is joint-developed between Fraunhofer (Germany) and INRIA (France).
The irony is that Germany uses iOS contact tracing, so as I live near the border I miss detection of a high vector.
Scratch that, I -would miss-, it I used the app, which I don’t because it has to be opened, manually toggled on, and stay in the foreground to do any contact tracing.
Even if it were not for the battery use, the power of defaults means that the app is rarely activated by people, (when it’s installed at all since it’s not listed in the initial iOS alert you get and pick France).
Desperate posters “here I activate TousAntiCOVID” are being placated in shopping malls and stuff.
It’s ridiculous.
https://gitlab.inria.fr/stopcovid19/accueil https://gitlab.inria.fr/stopcovid19/accueil
- joachim4 6y agoBut France showed repeatedly that they don't understand science, do want to listen to it, and don't want to learn from it. From the masks to the current christmas holidays who will create a 3rd wave, they proved they don't handle this virus very well. Add to that a bit of science nationalism from the De Gaulle era, and we ended up with that app.
- wut42 6y agoROBERT was used in the first app too.