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.

Show Notes

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

🎙 Interview with Giovanni Fili, founder and CEO at Exeger

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