{"id":27750,"date":"2025-07-25T09:09:53","date_gmt":"2025-07-25T09:09:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quickbirdmedical.com\/?post_type=news&#038;p=27750"},"modified":"2026-09-03T13:27:55","modified_gmt":"2026-09-03T13:27:55","slug":"stefan-kofler-interview-corona-apps","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/quickbirdmedical.com\/en\/news\/stefan-kofler-interview-corona-apps\/","title":{"rendered":"Stefan Kofler Interviewed on Corona Apps (Tageszeitung S\u00fcdtirol)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"111\" data-end=\"418\">How do coronavirus apps really work, and how secure are they? These questions were at the centre of the interview with <strong>Stefan Kofler<\/strong>, managing director of QuickBird Medical, published in the <strong>S\u00fcdtiroler Tageszeitung<\/strong>, one of the highest-reach media outlets in South Tyrol with around 200,000 readers.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"420\" data-end=\"693\">In the interview, Kofler explained how the <strong>Immuni app<\/strong>, the Italian counterpart to the German Corona-Warn-App, works technically, which data protection aspects are decisive, and why trust and transparency are central to the acceptance of such apps.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"695\" data-end=\"725\">Particular emphasis was placed on:<\/p>\n<ul data-start=\"727\" data-end=\"931\">\n<li data-start=\"727\" data-end=\"797\">\n<p data-start=\"729\" data-end=\"797\">how it <strong>works via Bluetooth<\/strong> (without using location data),<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li data-start=\"798\" data-end=\"850\">\n<p data-start=\"800\" data-end=\"850\">the anonymised <strong>exchange of risk contacts<\/strong>,<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li data-start=\"851\" data-end=\"931\">\n<p data-start=\"853\" data-end=\"931\">and the question of how secure <strong>health data<\/strong> in such apps actually is.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p data-start=\"933\" data-end=\"1096\">The full interview appeared in the weekend edition of the <strong>S\u00fcdtiroler Tageszeitung of July 4\/5, 2020<\/strong> on page 4 under the title &#8220;<strong>15 Minuten an der Person<\/strong>&#8220;.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1415\" data-end=\"1558\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-21181 size-full aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/quickbirdmedical.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Suedtiroler-Tageszeitung-Stefan-Kofler.webp\" alt=\"S\u00fcdtiroler-Tageszeitung-Stefan-Kofler\" width=\"1080\" height=\"486\" srcset=\"https:\/\/quickbirdmedical.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Suedtiroler-Tageszeitung-Stefan-Kofler.webp 1080w, 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