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Gérald Schneiber, 43, who works in Paris, said

“it’s out of question” to download it.

“I won’t let anyone keep a close watch on me –

and I hope it will never happen in France,” he said.

Parisian Florence Cieslak, 34, said she’s in favor

of “anything that can help in the fight against

COVID-19 and protect the population.”

She is ready to install the app, but only

after carefully reading the fine print on data

protection and compliance with GDPR, the EU’s

General Data Protection Regulation.

The French app uses low-energy Bluetooth

signals on mobile phones to trace individuals

that people infected with the virus come into

close contact with. It will store anonymous data

in a government-run centralized database.

O advocated for France’s choice not to use a

Google-Apple technology released last week,

because “we think health data should be stored by

health authorities and not by the private sector” -

notably after the tech world faced scandals in the

past about how it uses private data.

Germany, Italy, Austria, Estonia, Switzerland,

and Ireland are embracing a “decentralized”

approach, widely preferred by researchers and

privacy experts because anonymous identifier

codes for contacts are kept on devices only.

The Google-Apple technology works with the

decentralized system and is being used notably

by Germany.

But the French government considered the

decentralized solution “is less efficient from

healthcare point of view. We’d have less

information,” O said.

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