Poles do not trust government's ProteGO Safe application
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According to the Ministry of Digitization, by September 6, the Polish application for tracking contacts ProteGO Safe was downloaded by less than 725,000 people. This is still very little – only 1.9 percent of country's population.
Worse in this matter – among the countries that actually use the application and publish relatively up-to-date data – it is only in Slovenia. There, however, the low result may partly explain the fact that the application was only launched in mid-August and the data is from the end of last month. For comparison, the Polish application was launched on April 20, and its improved, decentralized version was launched on June 9.
The editors of the 300gospodarlka portal checked how the rest of Europe approaches the tracking of contacts via the smartphone application. And it has very different approaches.
It turns out that three groups of countries can be distinguished. The first are countries where citizens are not interested in the application and the percentage of people who installed it is around two percent.
Apart from Poland and Slovenia, this group also includes the Czech Republic and France. Taking into account the partial data, it can be assumed that the situation is similar in Bulgaria and Croatia.
Another group are countries where the percentage of people who downloaded the application is around 7-10 percent. This includes the Baltic States, Italy, Spain and Portugal.
There are also countries where the percentage of application users ranges from one fifth to one third of the population. These are countries with a high level of prosperity and trust in the state: the Nordic countries, Switzerland, Germany, but also Ireland.
The European record holder is Iceland, where, according to the institution responsible for the application, about 40 percent of society use it.
