Security News > 2020 > April > Contact-tracing or contact sport? Defections and accusations emerge among European COVID-chasing app efforts

European efforts to define a contact-tracing protocol aimed at making it easier for authorities to detect cases of COVID-19 appear to be having a rather vivid disagreement.

One of the efforts is the Pan-European Privacy-Preserving Proximity Tracing group, a Germany-based effort to develop a contact-tracing protocol.

The Register has received correspondence from a DP-3T developer describing PEPP-PT as "a horrible privacy-invasive solution".

CISPA has withdrawn from PEPP-PT. We will continue our work on #DP3T, a decentralised, open source framework for contact tracing based on privacy by design #CoronaApp.

Inria's even given its plans a new acronym to remember: the ROBust and privacy-presERving proximity Tracing protocol - aka ROBERT. As The Register reported last week, the European Commission has published a toolbox to inform the development of contact-tracing apps across the bloc.

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