The synchronization of the transaction data or the key was a while ago …

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The users of the Corona-Warn-App may not currently receive the current result of the risk assessment. On Wednesday, several users reported (also in the editorial office of heise online) that the app was not updating the risk status or was no longer comparing the encounter data. The error did not appear on the iPhone.

A spokesman for the software group SAP involved in the development confirmed the problems at the request of dpa: At the moment, the Corona warning app on Android smartphones is “in some cases” not able to carry out a key comparison. “This is currently due to the Exposure Notification Framework under the Google smartphone operating system. We have informed Google about the problem and are working together under high pressure to solve the problem.” SAP developed the app together with Deutsche Telekom.

The Corona warning app recorded so far, according to the Federal Ministry of Health, over 23 million downloads and is estimated by 23 Millions of people actively used.

Data protection or not? Most recently, the CDU politician Friedrich Merz and others had campaigned for a relaxation of the data protection concept of the application in order to provide better data for an effective pandemic Combat to collect. This approach was met with sharp criticism from the Federal Data Protection Officer Ulrich Kelber and the Chaos Computer Club (CCC).

“At no point does data protection conflict with the functionality of the app – with more or less data protection it would work just as well or badly, but by no means better,” said CCC spokesman Linus Neumann. He had already emphasized last year that the overriding of app data protection was nonsense, but that there were other useful extensions, including an option for decentralized cluster recording.

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