Both chambers of the French Parliament voted overwhelmingly for the country’s use of applications for smartphones StopCovid. Meanwhile, opposition parties have condemned the application to contact tracing for “infringement of personal freedoms and rights of citizens.”
according to CNN, the vote was purely symbolic and was meant to allow the government of the President of France Emmanuel Makron to know that the app StopCovid has political support. After several hours of debate in the National Assembly it voted 338 person-against – 215. In the French Senate 189 people voted in favor and 129 against.
“StopCovid is a tool to serve the citizens and not a threat to their freedoms,” said the Minister of justice of France Nicole Bellows before the vote in the lower house of Parliament. The representative of the National Assembly said on Wednesday that the government “does not need a legal basis to deploy the application, because it works exclusively on a voluntary basis and does not infringe upon personal freedom.”
on Tuesday, the national Commission on digital freedom gave the green light to the application. According to experts of the French Association for digital rights, La Quadrature du Net, from 60 to 80 percent of the population will have to use the app so that it “was useful in combating coronavirus”.
