Germany pivots to decentralised contact tracing

Three days after announcing Germany would adopt the centralised Pan-European Privacy-Preserving Proximity Tracing (PEPP-PT) standard for contact tracing, the country's chancellery minister Helge Braun and health minister Jens Spahn announced they would instead use the decentralised approach backed by Apple, Google, and other European countries. While both standards rely on Bluetooth connections between nearby phones, PEPP-PT would have required Apple's cooperation to implement, and the company has refused.

Source: https://en24.news/e/2020/04/corona-app-jens-spahn-is-said-to-have-opted-for-controversial-pepp-pt-model.html

Writer: Douglas Busvine and Andreas Rinke
Publication: Reuters