Hancock refuses to provide roll-out date for contact-tracing app
When questioned on the progress of the app Hancock told a parliamentary committee it would be rolled-out “as soon as an effective one is available”.
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Experts react to government’s U-turn on contact-tracing app
Industry leaders said the government should ensure ethics and privacy are “correct by design” in its new contact-tracing app.
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NHSX ‘knew contact-tracing app wouldn’t work on iPhones in April’
Apple and Google’s APIs only work with a decentralised system, which leaves many iPhones incompatible with the NHS centralised contact-tracing app.
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Covid-19 tracking tool appears on smartphones – but it’s not an app
The new exposure notification settings are part of an update to the operating systems, which will enable an app to run in the background.
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Tory peer reveals NHS contact-tracing app has cost £11.8m to date
The NHS contact-tracing app has so far cost £11.8million, the parliamentary under-secretary of state for innovation has revealed in the House of Lords.
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Google and Apple release their contact-tracing software
Google and Apple have released their Covid-19 contact-tracing software which can be used by smartphones across the globe.
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Centralised approach to contact-tracing app ‘based on shaky assumptions’
Privacy expert Polly Sanderson told Digital Health News there were “serious issues” associated with relying on the self-reporting of symptoms.
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Government ‘cannot rely on contact-tracing app to ease lockdown’
It is “critical” that capacity for contact-tracing is advanced for “further stages of managing the epidemic”, according to a government committee.
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NHSX differs with Apple and Google over contact-tracing app
NHSX has chosen to take a ‘centralised’ approach to collecting data on potential Covid-19 contacts, compared to Apple and Google’s ‘decentralised’ approach.
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Digital Health Unplugged: April news team debrief (from home)
Join senior reporter Andrea Downey, editor Hannah Crouch, and editor-in-chief Jon Hoeksma as we discuss the development of contact-tracing apps.
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