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Germany, EU governments release interoperability details for Covid-19 tracing apps

By Matthew Newman and Cynthia Kroet
  • 16 Jun 2020 06:48
  • 07 Aug 2020 04:32
EU governments, including Germany, Austria and Italy, have today released technical details to allow national contact-tracing apps to work seamlessly with each other as the bloc's citizens begin cross-border travel now that Covid-19 movement restrictions have been lifted.
Germany, which rolled out its “Corona-Warn” app today, is planning a pilot interoperability program with

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Matthew Newman

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Matthew Newman is a chief correspondent for MLex and writes about data protection, privacy, telecoms, cyber security and artificial intelligence. Matthew began his journalism career in 1991 in community newspapers. He worked as a reporter in Riga, Latvia in 1993 and then moved to Chicago where he covered local news. In 1995, he became a personal finance reporter for Dow Jones Newswires, and was then transferred to Brussels in 1999. He specialized in EU regulatory affairs, including trade and telecom issues. He began covering competition for Bloomberg News as an EU court reporter in 2004. In 2010, he was named spokesman for Viviane Reding, the EU’s justice commissioner. In January 2012, he helped launch the commission’s proposal to overall data protection rules.

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