France’s centralized contact-tracing app approved by lawmakers, to launch this weekend

In France, the government’s contact-tracing app project was approved by the lower house of parliament on Wednesday, paving the way for a weekend launch of a tool developed independently of the more widely-used privacy-focused Apple-Google Exposure Notification API.Michel Rose for Reuters:In defending the app in parliament, the minister in charge hailed it as the embodiment of French know-how, developed by national champions such as Orange and Dassault Systemes.
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