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The previous version, which cost NOK 40 million to develop, was scrapped this fall, after the Norwegian Data Protection Authority temporarily banned the use of the controversial app from the Norwegian Institute of Public Health.
– This application is different in the sense that it does not collect data that is stored centrally. Nobody gets to know who is being notified or who is notifying, Camilla Stoltenberg, director of the National Institute of Public Health (NIPH), tells TV 2.
– Supplement
This is the functionality of the new application, explains:
– If you are infected and registered in the application, people with whom you have been in close contact in the last 24 hours before they gave you symptoms receive a notification that they have been close to someone infected. And if you’ve been around someone infected yourself, you will be notified, says Stoltenberg.
– How does the application find out if it has been near someone infected?
– It is a solution that Apple and Google have developed that is used here, and it is the same solution that is going to be used, says the director of FHI.
– So that the mobile knows if it has been close to another mobile. But what if it’s a multi-story building? Would you like to be notified if someone on another floor has been infected?
– Actually, I don’t have a general description of that, so I have to investigate. This is in development now, and it’s probably one of the things you look at, if it can be worked out, says Camilla Stoltenberg.
The director of FHI says the app will be a complement to manual infection tracking, which is under heavy load.
– We are pretty sure that there are some that you do not discover, so we hope that this way we can discover more, says Stoltenberg.
Many are insecure
According to FHI, a survey of people’s attitudes toward downloading a new app shows that there are significantly fewer men between the ages of 30 and 39 who say we download the app, and there are many who are unsure.
Social responsibility is the most important factor and privacy the biggest barrier to downloading the app, according to FHI.
74 percent of respondents ages 30 to 39 are significantly more concerned about privacy. In the youngest age group, 40 percent say they think the app will consume too much battery.
