Stopp Corona (Q4314)
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mobile app developped by the Austrian Red Cross
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Stopp Corona
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mobile app developped by the Austrian Red Cross
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Technical statement
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The app wants to use microphone and Bluetooth to locate smartphones in your area, which you can then network with. The user's contacts are only stored on their end device. They are not accessible to the Red Cross and no conclusions can be drawn about encounters. If you register as ill, we ask for your mobile phone number and send a TAN as confirmation.
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2020/04/05 77.000 Downloads
2020/04/22 400,000 people in Austria already use the app
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For the digital handshake, it is checked whether other smartphones in the area have also triggered the handshake. This works via ultrasound. [..]. The sound is recorded by other smartphones with the microphone, and vice versa, your smartphone also uses the microphone to pick up sounds from other devices. For this reason, access to the microphone is required.
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2020/06/4 500,000 downloads
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Identifiers
at.roteskreuz.stopcorona
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