Ob the Luca program for contact tracking of corona infected people in health authorities will be used across the board beyond April 1st is unclear. According to research by WELT AM SONNTAG, none of the 13 federal states that bought annual licenses in spring 2021 has yet decided to extend them.
“The app was quite a money-burning machine,” criticized SPD digital politician Jens Zimmermann (Member of the Bundestag). He advises the federal states against signing new contracts. Dorothee Bär (CSU), Minister of State for Digitization, is also critical of Luca’s further deployment. “I am an advocate of the Corona warning app, it does not collect any personal data, it works decentrally, anonymously and sparingly,” she told WELT AM SONNTAG.
Luca, on the other hand, rates Bernhard Rohleder, managing director of the Bitkom digital association, as successful. However, he emphasizes the interaction with the Corona-Warn-App (CWA): “One can safely assume that the apps have prevented infections in the six-digit range.” Hamburg’s Finance Senator Andreas Dressel (SPD) also draws a positive balance: Luca makes possible an “effective contact tracking”.
According to the company, health authorities have requested more than 250,000 contact details via Luca in the last 14 days. And after a risk assessment, a total of more than 55,000 warning messages were displayed.
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