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As I expected it's backdoored. It uses the new central Google Tracking ID feature. https://github.com/corona-warn-app/cwa-app-android/wiki/4-Go...

Other apps can do without central tracking Id's. It was fishy that Germany waited weeks for this Google API (officially to support low voltage Bluetooth), whilst other countries had their open source apps ready for long. Germany and France pushed for centralized tracking, it was called off after protests, now its again in via their US friends.



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