Brenno is really a top people. He's a real influencer to me if he says that thing works. It works.

See NRC article.


IT expert and former journalist Brenno de Winter was one of the loudest critics of the corona app. Nevertheless, in May he became a consultant on the payroll of the Ministry of Health. According to De Winter, not his attitude, but that of the ministry has changed. “When it was said that privacy came first, security on second and accessibility on third, it was clear to me that people thought differently now.”

De Winter, who became an investigative journalist by cracking the public transport chip card, called the Ministry's first attempt to develop a corona app against NRC “a high mass of techno-optimism”. “It starts to smell like improper governance,” he said in April about selecting seven apps during the so-called 'appathon' — in the end, none of them did.


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Now the government is more realistic, says De Winter at his kitchen table in Amstelveen. “The sacred belief in bluetooth — that we would measure distance and perform the best calculations — is gone.” Based on these Bluetooth signals, the CoronaMelder creates a log of recent contacts. If one of them tests positive for the coronavirus, a warning will follow such as that contact lasted longer than 15 minutes, and according to the app there was proximity: no hard limit of one and a half meters.

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