Jan Kleijssen, Director of the Information Society and Action against Crime Directorate at the Council of Europe, expressed doubts on 5 June about the use of tracing applications to combat Covid-19.
At least 40 countries around the world have implemented such applications, including several EU Member States.
“The apps must respect transparency, voluntary download, privacy, be for specific purposes, anonymisation of data, persons must not be identified, and they must have an architecture...