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Italy's New COVID-19 App Tracks Contacts and Protects Privacy

Sabina Castelfranco

   ROME - Italy's new contact tracing app for the coronavirus is about to
   be launched in a number of pilot regions. It will be available to
   everyone in the country on a voluntary basis and will guarantee the
   privacy of users, officials who commissioned its development say.
   Italians will be able to download the contact tracing app on their
   mobile phones that will help combat the spread of the coronavirus,
   starting May 29.

   "Immuni" was developed at the request of Italy's Ministry of Innovation
   Technology and Digital Transformation. Paolo de Rosa, its chief
   technology officer, says the app can speed up the process of finding
   people who have had contact with the coronavirus.
   "The app is able to do that in a privacy-preserving way so it is not
   like the traditional approach where you need to identify people. In
   this case there is only an alerting of people that have been in contact
   with someone that result positive," de Rosa said.
   How contract tracing apps work

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