- Title: 171 AT COVID-19 Stop App
- Date: 24th March 2020
- Description:In the fight against the corona virus, the Austrian Red Cross has a mobile phone app in use as of today The program can recognize the person opposite if he or she has also installed the app. The app functions as a contact diary in which personal encounters are stored anonymously with a "digital handshake". If a person falls ill with Covid-19, everyone who has had contact in the past 48 hours is automatically notified and asked to isolate him or herself. In the first version launched today, these "handshakes" must be confirmed manually. To do this, both devices must be networked and actively stored by the users. If the search for smartphones in the vicinity is activated and several people have opened the app, several devices and thus contacts can also be saved, according to the Red Cross information. It is still unclear how the app is structured in terms of data protection law. A team of 40 people is intensively working on the app. From today on a first version is be available in the app stores of Android and Iphone - updates will follow. From today a first version is available in the app stores of Android and Iphone - updates will follow. Shotlist Close up phone with open app Soundbite (German) Sebastian Schally, Project Manager Stop Corona app: “The app shall be a contribution so that infection chains can be interrupted as fast as possible. It contains a contact diary in which the user can save his intensive contacts which is done by a digital handshake. In case of an infection or symptoms these contacts will be informed so that they can go into self-quarantine in time and independently” Sebastian Schally working on his notebook Soundbite (German) Sebastian Schally, Project Manager Stop Corona app: “Currently we are finishing two apps and establish an infrastructure simultaneously which will hopefully stand the test of time.” - persons using their smartphones Soundbite (German) Max Schrems, data protectionist, NOYB: “When I am in the subway and there are only two persons have the active app on a full charched smartphone this is not very useful for the complete destruction of a virus. The app must be designed in a way that people can really trust it, therefor it is necessary that it is very very clean according to data protection. Screen showing the specific user number Screen explaining the app Soundbite (German) Max Schrems, data protectionist, NOYB: “Another problem is that people simply get used of it, at the beginning you think I would never allow to get tracked, but when you are used to it after half a year it doesn’t feel weird anymore.” Screen “check symptoms” referring to a clinical questionnaire Screen “ notification in case of illness”
- Collection: ORF
- Genre:News
- Producer:ORF
- Transmission Date:24/03/2020
- Decade: 2020s