Apps in the fight against Corona

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Since mid-March, another digitalization topic has been increasingly coming to the fore. The calls for the use of movement and contact data from smartphones to contain the coronavirus are also becoming noticeably louder in Germany. The aim is to quickly and comprehensively trace the contact routes of infected people and thus decisively counteract the further spread of Covid-19 with the help of digitalization.

Currently, health authorities often still record the contacts of a person who has tested positive for the coronavirus using pencil, paper and telephone – a herculean task in times of heavily stretched human resources.

If the Corona app were to become established in Germany, it could perhaps also become part of the federal government's exit strategy to gradually relax the contact bans and other restrictions.



Opportunities bring risks
Despite all the hype about the opportunities and malaysia gambling data possibilities of digitalization , it is important to be aware of the risks and to take decisive action to counteract them. From a European perspective, many Corona apps appear to have been hastily put together. On the one hand, this is aimed at functionality, but on the other hand, data protection and IT security are rightly being questioned by many.

Internet activists and large parts of the population therefore suspect a number of political taboos being broken, especially in data protection issues – and this is happening at a rapid pace that hardly allows for any social discourse.

As TÜViT, we want to participate in the public discussion as an independent testing institution and place the perspective of verifiable data security at the center of the debate. Only if we succeed in doing this will we create lasting trust in digital solutions - especially in times of the corona pandemic.

Read an interview with Dirk Kretzschmar, Managing Director of TÜV Informationstechnik GmbH.