Empty streets are seen, as the spread of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) continues, in Munich, Germany, March 30, 2020. REUTERS/Andreas Gebert
BERLIN (Reuters) - Germany hopes to launch a smartphone app within weeks to help trace coronavirus infections, after a broad political consensus emerged that adopting an approach pioneered by Singapore can be effective without invading people's privacy.
Germans are deeply suspicious of digital surveillance, and the use of individual smartphone location data to track the spread of the pandemic would be illegal under national and European Union privacy laws.
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