New test and trace system falls short on roll-out of contact-tracing app
DHSC said work on the contact-tracing app continues following a “positive reception” on the Isle of Wight, but no date for the roll-out was committed to.
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NHSX seeks remote monitoring suppliers to manage Covid-19 pressure
In a tender notice the organisation called on remote monitoring companies with “evidenced examples” of the successful use of their innovation to apply.
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NHS coronavirus contact-tracing app ‘delayed until June’
Health secretary Matt Hancock had previously said the app would be rolled out by mid-May, as had NHSX chief Matthew Gould.
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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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Draft bills calls for greater assurance of privacy in contact-tracing app
If the bill becomes law, government would be required to set up an independent contact-tracing app Privacy Tzar to monitor its use and deal with complaints.
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Digital Health Unplugged: May news team debrief
Join Andrea Downey, Hannah Crouch and Jon Hoeksma as they look at the whether the app will be successful and if NHSX has taken the right approach.
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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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Unreliable contact-tracing apps ‘could provide false sense of security’
The ethics advisory board tasked with overseeing the NHS contact-tracing app has raised concerns about the reliability of an app based on self-reporting.
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Google Analytics trackers in contact-tracing app code ‘risks re-identification’
NHSX has always maintained the code for the contact-tracing app would be made publicly available, but currently only the front-end code has been published.
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NHS contact-tracing app ‘falls short of data protection law’
Michael Veale, a lecturer in digital rights at University College London, found the app does not comply with UK law on anonymity and access to data.
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