Hans-Christian Boos

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(businessman)
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Born1972
NationalityGerman
Alma materETH Zurich, Technical University Darmstadt
Interests • Artificial intelligence
• machine learning
• digitalization
Businessman and AI enthusiast. Worked with creating the infrastructure for centralized contact tracing during Covid, although his system did not get implemented. Attended Bilderberg/2019.

Hans-Christian Boos is a German businessman. He attended the Bilderberg for the first time in 2019.

As a member of the Digital Council of the German Government he advised Angela Merkel and her team in all question pertaining to digitalization.[1]

Education

Chris Boos studied computer science at ETH Zurich and the Technical University Darmstadt.[2]

Career

Boos is the founder of Arago, a leading company for Artificial intelligence (AI) in Germany, which supports established companies in their transformation into the digital age.[3]

Covid

In 2020, Boos was head of the PEPP-PT consortium, working to provide the protocol on which to subsequently develop a centralized contact tracing applications.[4] "We're now in contact with 40 countries worldwide," Boos told in a phone interview. "We started as a European project, but maybe we’ll have to rename it now; there are countries from all around the world contacting us."[5]

An open letter signed by some 300 tech experts viciously criticized the centralized data processing of contract tracing apps[6]. The PEPP-PT app was designed to provide anonymized data to national health authorities with users' consent. For the letter authors, this was "mission creep" toward greater surveillance. Other critics claimed that PEPP-PT lacked transparency because its founders were unwilling to openly publish their code.[7]

The criticism led to an exodus among the app’s founding supporters. PEPP-PT's death nail came from Apple, one half of the Big Tech duopoly that controls 99 percent of German smartphone operating systems, which refused to unlock its operating system interface to allow central processing of Bluetooth data, leading to the German government shifting support away from PEPP-PT.[7]

 

Event Participated in

EventStartEndLocation(s)Description
Bilderberg/201930 May 20192 June 2019Switzerland
Montreux
The 67th Bilderberg Meeting
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