{"id":27749,"date":"2025-07-25T09:04:41","date_gmt":"2025-07-25T09:04:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quickbirdmedical.com\/?post_type=news&#038;p=27749"},"modified":"2026-09-03T13:31:20","modified_gmt":"2026-09-03T13:31:20","slug":"stefan-kofler-interview-hr-info","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/quickbirdmedical.com\/en\/news\/stefan-kofler-interview-hr-info\/","title":{"rendered":"Data Protection or Pandemic Control? Stefan Kofler Interviewed by hr info"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"120\" data-end=\"259\">How much surveillance is justifiable in a pandemic, and how can a coronavirus warning app help effectively without endangering fundamental rights?<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"261\" data-end=\"635\"><strong>Stefan Kofler<\/strong>, managing director of QuickBird Medical, answered these and other questions in an interview with the public radio station <strong>hr info<\/strong>. As part of the politics podcast &#8220;<strong>Ausweg aus der Pandemie-Krise oder Einstieg in die Big-Brother-\u00c4ra?<\/strong>&#8220;, he discussed the opportunities and limits of digital infection control together with other experts.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"637\" data-end=\"669\">The focus of the discussion was:<\/p>\n<ul data-start=\"671\" data-end=\"887\">\n<li data-start=\"671\" data-end=\"726\">\n<p data-start=\"673\" data-end=\"726\">the <strong>technical workings<\/strong> of coronavirus warning apps,<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li data-start=\"727\" data-end=\"791\">\n<p data-start=\"729\" data-end=\"791\">the interplay of <strong>Bluetooth technology<\/strong> <strong>and<\/strong> <strong>data protection<\/strong>,<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li data-start=\"792\" data-end=\"887\">\n<p data-start=\"794\" data-end=\"887\">and the societal question: <strong>how do you create trust in digital health solutions?<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p data-start=\"889\" data-end=\"1071\">The interview, broadcast in the summer of 2020, made a significant contribution to the public debate on the use of digital technologies to combat the pandemic.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1263\" data-end=\"1485\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-2375 size-full aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/quickbirdmedical.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/LinkedIn-Promo-Stefan-Corporate-mit-QBM-Logo-white-stripe-e1753434221304.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1488\" height=\"610\" srcset=\"https:\/\/quickbirdmedical.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/LinkedIn-Promo-Stefan-Corporate-mit-QBM-Logo-white-stripe-e1753434221304.png 1488w, https:\/\/quickbirdmedical.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/LinkedIn-Promo-Stefan-Corporate-mit-QBM-Logo-white-stripe-e1753434221304-1280x610.png 1280w, https:\/\/quickbirdmedical.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/LinkedIn-Promo-Stefan-Corporate-mit-QBM-Logo-white-stripe-e1753434221304-980x551.png 980w, https:\/\/quickbirdmedical.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/LinkedIn-Promo-Stefan-Corporate-mit-QBM-Logo-white-stripe-e1753434221304-480x270.png 480w\" sizes=\"(min-width: 0px) and (max-width: 480px) 480px, (min-width: 481px) and (max-width: 980px) 980px, (min-width: 981px) and (max-width: 1280px) 1280px, (min-width: 1281px) 1488px, 100vw\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\" data-start=\"1263\" data-end=\"1485\">Stefan Kofler in the podcast interview with hr info.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"template":"","categories":[],"tags":[],"display":[],"class_list":["post-27749","news","type-news","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.1 - 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