Hectic week for Amazon in Europe; PEPP-PT and contact-tracing apps; Exeger and future of self-charging gadgets
This week, Andrii Degeler and Natalie Novick discuss the good and bad things happening to Amazon in Europe, the reasons why we still don't have an EU-wide contact tracing app, and much more. The featured interview of the episode is a conversation with Giovanni Fili, CEO and founder of Exeger, who talks about the future of self-charging gadget and the “light-conscious” next generation.
Here are the notes and links for this week’s interviews.
🎙 Good and bad week for Amazon in Europe
- Amazon to close French warehouses until next week after court order
- Amazon's EU head of operations steps down amid virus crisis
- No end in sight yet for Amazon shutdown in France
- CMA provisionally clears Amazon’s investment in Deliveroo
- Amazon’s investment in Deliveroo provisionally approved by UK watchdog
🎙 Natalie Novick on the future of contact tracing apps and the issues of the PEPP-PT project
- Quantifying SARS-CoV-2 transmission suggests epidemic control with digital contact tracing
- European coronavirus app platform gains traction with governments
- Decentralized Protocol Removed From EU Contact Tracing Website Without Notice
- An Investigation Into PEPP-PT
- European coronavirus contact tracing app sparks uproar in the privacy community
- Coronavirus: An EU approach for efficient contact tracing apps
- Italy tests contact-tracing app to speed lockdown exit
- Europe's PEPP-PT COVID-19 contacts tracing standard push could be squaring up for a fight with Apple and Google
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