Apple and Google have said their Bluetooth proximity tracking technology, which could be baked into contact tracing or exposure notification apps, will drop mid-May
, developed alongside 130 tech experts across eight countries, to build apps that could detect potential infections. Critically, the plan allowed for placing everyone's data on a central server and giving epidemiologists and policymakers access to some of the information, to analyze how the virus spread nationwide.
“The discussion among tech experts killed the credibility and trustworthiness of the technology," a high-ranking German official told POLITICO. "That’s why we decided to go with the different approach.
While Germany ultimately sided with Apple and Google, France went the opposite way and ended up in an open confrontation with the tech giants. "We chose the centralized system because of data protection concerns and issues regarding interconnection with [our] epidemiological system," O told POLITICO. Both the country's privacy regulator and National Digital Councilthat France's plans complied with EU privacy rules, as long as appropriate oversight was in place.
On April 20, O again urged the companies to work with officials to find a workaround. But his pleas were rebuffed when the tech giants reaffirmed they would only work on projects relying on decentralized data. After an initial stalled response to the global public health crisis, London was eager to show it was on top of tackling Covid-19 — and quickly turned, in early March, to a potential smartphone tracking app that had proved successful in parts of Asia.
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