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An EU coalition of techies is backing a privacy-preserving standard for COVID-19 contacts tracing

A Eu coalition of techies and scientists drawn from a minimum of 8 countries, and led by way of manner of Germany’s Fraunhofer Heinrich Hertz Institute for telecoms (HHI), is running on contacts-tracing proximity technology for COVID-19 that’s designed to evolve to the world’s strict priv…
A European coalition of techies and scientists drawn from at least eight countries, and led by Germany’s Fraunhofer Heinrich Hertz Institute for telecoms (HHI), is working on contacts-tracing proximity technology for COVID-19 that’s designed to comply with the region’s strict priv…

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