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Governments placing all hope in an app to re-open the economy – and Big Tech and Big Data firms keen to sell them this dream – run the risk of creating false security (Photo: Blogtrepreneur)

The Dutch tracing app 'soap opera' - lessons for Europe

As we all long for freedom from lockdowns and home confinement, people would love to believe 'there is an app for that'.

Many countries are discussing, planning or even implementing so-called contact tracing apps. There are heated debates about privacy and security issues.

But what's missing in most debates is how effective the apps actually are — and there could be some r...

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Alice Stollmeyer is the executive director of Defend Democracy, in Brussels, Marietje Schaake is a Dutch former MEP and international policy fellow at Stanford and Financial Times columnist. Frank Dignum is professor of socially-aware artificial intelligence at Umeå university in Sweden.

Governments placing all hope in an app to re-open the economy – and Big Tech and Big Data firms keen to sell them this dream – run the risk of creating false security (Photo: Blogtrepreneur)

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Alice Stollmeyer is the executive director of Defend Democracy, in Brussels, Marietje Schaake is a Dutch former MEP and international policy fellow at Stanford and Financial Times columnist. Frank Dignum is professor of socially-aware artificial intelligence at Umeå university in Sweden.

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