Immuni (Q4489)
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App chosen by the Italian Government for contact tracing
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Immuni
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App chosen by the Italian Government for contact tracing
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Immuni is a contact tracing app developed by Bending Spoons S.P.A. The app will be used voluntarily in line with recommendations by the Italian Data Protections authority. The Italian Government opted for a contact tracing app over a GPS tracking one.
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The goal is to identify sick people before they show symptoms; Immuni was also selected because aligned with PEPP-PT privacy standards. Bending Spoons developed the app for free and with open source licence; the company licenses the copyrights and intellectual property rights of the source code to the Italian government.
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"Experts say the app would need to be downloaded by at least 60% of the population to help achieve so called digital herd immunity" (source: Reuters)
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also initially tested at the Ferrari factory
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"Immuni," the app to fight the pandemic becomes the chaos app"
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Identifiers
it.ministerodellasalute.immuni
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