Denmark COVID-19 Mobile Application

Smittestop is a digital contact tracing app. With smittestop we can all contribute to prevent the spread of COVID-19. The app is a supplement to the general guidelines and advice outlined by the Danish public health authorities in an effort to protect yourself and those around you from COVID-19.
Once you have downloaded and started using smittestop, you are actively contributing to breaking chains of infection. The app will send you an alert if you have been in close contact with another app user diagnosed with COVID-19.
If you yourself test positive, you can share your result with other app users. Smittestop will then send alerts to other app users who have spent time near you. These alerts will not identify you as an individual.
It is voluntary to download and use the app.

How smittestop app works?

• When you activate smittestop, your phone uses random Bluetooth IDs to determine whether you may have in close contact with someone who has shared in smittestop that he or she has been diagnosed with COVID-19. The randomly generated IDs are being stored on your phone. The IDs will only leave your phone when you voluntarily choose to share in the app that you have COVID-19 using your NemID. The IDs change every 10 to 20 minutes and are not tied up to your identity.
• Smittestop uses your phone’s COVID-19 Exposure Notifications, developed by Apple and Google.
• No one can see your identity nor your location. And you can’t see the identity of those you may have been in close contact with, nor where they have been.
• Neither public authorities nor private companies have access to information about who you have been in close contact with. They also do not have access to any information in case you receive an alert in the app that you have been near someone who has reported being diagnosed with COVID-19.
• The app does not use GPS-based location to register data about your whereabouts.
• Basically, the app works like this: Two phones will recognize each other through the app and will then exchange random IDs by means of Bluetooth.
• At least once a day, the system will download keys for the random numbers that have been verified by public health authorities as belonging to people confirmed to be positive for COVID-19.

Expect updates with new features or improvement of the user experience.

Features of Smittestop app

Notify others if you test positive for coronavirus/COVID-19

• If you test positive, you can easily share your result with other app users that you have been in close contact with, for example on public transport or in restaurants.
• When you share your positive test result in smittestop, the other users cannot identify you as an individual. Nobody will know who or where you are. Nor will they know when they were in close contact with you.
• You can only use the app to notify other app users. If you test positive, we strongly encourage you to please still notify family members, friends etc. who have spent time near you.

Receive an alert if you have been in close contact with another app user diagnosed with coronavirus/COVID-19

• It is voluntary to download and use the app. If many persons choose to do so, it could be an important contribution to breaking chains of infection, thereby preventing COVID-19 from getting out of control.
• Once you have downloaded the app, you can always inactivate it so that it no longer registers other app users that you are in close contact with.
• If you test positive, you must authorize and share your positive test result in smittestop. In doing so other app users who have spent time near you will receive an alert saying that they have been in close contact with a person infected with COVID-19.

Protecting your data and privacy

• Privacy and data security are crucial to us. Downloading and using smittestop is completely secure.
• Smittestop uses technology in your phone’s operating system. Technology that has been developed by Apple and Google with user privacy and security central to the design.
• Neither public authorities nor private companies have access to information about who you have been in close contact with. They also do not have access to any information in case you receive an alert in the app saying that you have been near someone who has reported being diagnosed with COVID-19.
• Smittestop is compliant with data protection law and rules, and the app has undergone comprehensive security testing before being launched.

Smittestop is developed by the Danish Ministry of Health in cooperation with the Danish Patient Safety Authority, Statens Serum Institut, the Danish Health Authority, and the Agency for Digitisation.

Source:

https://smittestop.dk/en