French lawmakers endorse the country’s virus tracing app

A woman wearing protective face mask looks at her phone past a closed restaurant during a nationwide confinement to counter the Covid-19, in Paris. French privacy watchdog CNIL backed the app this week, stating the technology ‘won’t lead to creating a list of infected people but only a list of contacts using pseudonymous data. It does respect the concept of data protection’. — AP

PARIS: France’s lower house of parliament endorsed on May 27 a contact-tracing app designed to contain the spread of the coronavirus amid sharp debate over privacy concerns.

Lawmakers in the National Assembly, where French President Emmanuel Macron’s centrist party has a majority, voted 338-215 to approve the StopCovid app.