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What's the difference between this Luca app and the "official" German covid tracing app (Corona-Warn)? Or are they the same thing?
by ndom91 5y ago
What's the difference between this Luca app and the "official" German covid tracing app (Corona-Warn)? Or are they the same thing?
- perlgeek 5y agoThe official app stores all its data decentralized, only cryptographic hashes are stored centrally that each device then can check locally for potential risks. In the Luca app, the user's location data is stored centrally, and the states can then purchase a license to access data of potentially risky contacts. (BTW the public health offices are notoriously overworked during the pandemic, so it's not clear to me if they'd even manage to do anything with this data).
- catdog 5y ago> (BTW the public health offices are notoriously overworked during the pandemic, so it's not clear to me if they'd even manage to do anything with this data). Anecdotally most of them are completely overwhelmed because of the currently fairly high case numbers and effective contact tracing does not really happen anymore. Also they mostly live in the technological stone age so they have a hard time scaling it up [1]. [1] https://www.dw.com/en/german-health-care-tackling-covid-with-paper-pen-and-a-fax-machine/a-56360491 https://www.dw.com/en/german-health-care-tackling-covid-with...
- pantalaimon 5y agoLuca app is made by a private company and stores personal data on a central server. The official Corona Warn App uses the Exposure Notification Framework and does not share any personal data.