Börse Express – ROUNDUP: Google and Apple strengthen data protection for the corona application platform



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Google and apple
strengthen the data protection precautions in your
infrastructure planned for Corona warning applications. The best
It should make monitoring of individual users even more difficult.
This includes that you are now also connected to the Bluetooth radio.
Additional data, such as signal strength, is encrypted,
the two companies said Friday. This is supposed to
become impossible for individual device models based on such features
recognize

However, Corona apps are designed to help contain contagion.
The restrictions to go out are relaxed. They should capture
which smartphones have come close and warn users
if it later turns out that they become infected together
He had arrested people.

The distance should be based on the concept of Apple and Google.
You can measure the intensity of the Bluetooth signal. Smartphones should also
exchange cryptographic keys through Bluetooth, which change every 10 to 20
Change minutes With this one should be able to understand the encounters,
without an individual being traceable. These keys are supposed
are now generated completely at random to ensure safety
improve The maximum measured encounter time is 30
Limited minutes and determined in 5 minute steps.

The dominant Android smartphone system comes from Google; Apple
develops the iOS software for your iPhones. With that are
American corporations are the only ones in the position to provide the necessary interfaces
to integrate directly into operating systems and is therefore efficient
To provide the basis for warning applications.

At the same time, it can be difficult to find other concepts without yours.
Implement cooperation. So France demands Apple
Restrictions introduced for data protection reasons.
Smooths Bluetooth operation in the background so that
The government-run Corona app works.

A key point of the Apple and Google concept is that the
Determine if you are near an infected user
stopped, only to be done on smartphones. You
download lists at least once a day
Below cryptographic keys belonging to infected people. Here
remains your identity for Apple, Google and other users of the application
unknown

The changes announced on Friday also point to
Developers and authorities have more scope to design the
Give it the Corona app. So they can use a new interface
Limits for signal strength and time, devices side by side
spend, establish. In other words: Google and Apple deliver it
technical tools but the health authorities decide
when they take a risk of infection.

Apple initially wants interfaces available for all iPhones
make it run with the iOS 13 operating system version, on Google
it’s Android 6. Recent changes include one
Encryption algorithm exchange: that should be the main thing
Improve battery life.

There is currently a dispute in Germany between the developers of
Corona applications because some have a centralized approach
Track data storage. Chaos Computer Warned Friday
Club in front of him. The PEPP-PT (pan-European
Proximity tracking to preserve privacy), to the participants of which
The Robert Koch Institute heard that it could not “quickly
A reasonably functional and data protection solution.
deliver, “wrote the network to the Federal Chancellery
the “Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung” reported on this.

“The federal government has great confidence in what is currently in the system
is being tested at Fraunhofer, “said the deputy
Government spokesman Ulrike Demmer. The Fraunhofer Institute created
a feasibility study to be criticized by the Chaos Computer Club
PEPP-PT concept. In the end, the Federal Office of Security in the
Information technology makes a recommendation here, Demmer said. “In
a central server you have to trust who uses it
maintains, in this case possibly a state
Job. With a decentralized system, you need Apple and Google
trust who will keep it. “/ so / DP / jha

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