France rolls out its StopCovid Covid-19 surveillance & tracking app today on iOS and Android

Dateline today... 02/06/2020 - 17:00, all verbatim
<https://www.economie.gouv.fr/stopcovid>

o iOS StopCovid France 4+ Luttons contre le coronavirus Gouvernement Francais
<https://apps.apple.com/fr/app/id1511279125>
<https://apps.apple.com/app/id1511279125>
o Android 
<https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=fr.gouv.android.stopcovid>

  "France is rolling out an official coronavirus contact-tracing app...   
   becoming the first major European country to deploy the smartphone 
   technology amid simmering debate over privacy fears."

o *France rolls out Covid-19 tracing app amid privacy debate*
<https://www.france24.com/en/20200602-france-rolls-out-covid-19-tracing-app-amid-privacy-debate>
  
  "Neighbors including the U.K., Germany, Italy, and Switzerland are
   developing their own apps, though they're using different technical 
   protocols, raising questions about compatibility"

  "Under the French system, data is uploaded to government-run 
   centralized servers. "

  "France, like Britain, rejected a new mobile software interface 
   for tracing apps jointly developed by U.S. tech giants Google 
   and Apple, instead choosing to build its own. "

  "The problem with a centralized protocol is that you have to be confident 
   and to trust your state but we're in a democratic state, we have checks
   and balances"
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Big Brother is Watching You.