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<title>Any Corona tracking app must be used voluntarily and be Free Software</title>
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<h1>Any Corona tracking app must be used voluntarily and be Free Software</h1>
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<p>The Free Software Foundation Europe (FSFE) demands that the use of tracking technologies
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that aim at breaking the chains of disease infection may only be promoted on a voluntary basis, fundamental
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rights must be respected and the software must be published under a Free Software licence.</p>
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<p>In recent days there have been increasing debates about the use and development of apps that aim at helping
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to contain the corona virus by tracking new infections and their contact persons. With the help of a contact diary
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it is possible to record who met with whom and when. If a person is infected with the corona virus, their contacts
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are informed and asked to isolate themselves and to take further actions, if necessary. It will hopefully be possible
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to break the chain of infection and thus reduce the infection rate. In some countries, there are also discussions
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about mandatory use of this app, which would interfere with people's right to control their technology and thus their privacy.</p>
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<p>The Free Software Foundation Europe demands that any such app may only be introduced on a voluntary basis and the software
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must be published under a Free Software licence, sometimes also called Open Source. Any medical records and data must be placed
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under the highest priority of data protection. Only Free Software offers enough transparency to validate complete data protection
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and compliant use; thus trust can be established. A majority of investments in the current crisis and a lot of
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actors in the medical sector are state-funded, and <a href="https://publiccode.eu/">publicly financed. The FSFE is campaigning that software developed for the
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public sector must be made publicly available under Free Software licences</a>, as hundreds of organisations and tens of thousands of people demand.</p>
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<p>Global problems need global solutions and it is only Free Software that enables global code development in a legally
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safe cooperative environment. Any proprietary solution will inevitably lead to countless isolated solutions and thereby waste energy and time. </p>
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<p>Besides global cooperation, Free Software licences allow sharing of code in any jurisdiction.
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Solutions developed in one country can be reused and adpated in another one. International development
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agencies and humanitarian movements can help to contain the spread of COVID-19 in any country around
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the world with Free Software solutions. </p>
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<discussion href="https://community.fsfe.org/t/any-corona-tracking-app-must-be-used-voluntarily-and-be-free-software/416" />
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<tag key="tools">Tools</tag>
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<tag key="pmpc">Public Money? Public Code!</tag>
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<tag key="corona">Corona</tag>
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