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24 June 2020

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
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NHS Contact-Tracing App
23 June 2020

Tory peer reveals NHS contact-tracing app has cost Ā£11.8m to date

The NHS contact-tracing app has so far cost Ā£11.8million, the parliamentary under-secretary of state for innovation has revealed in the
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22 May 2020

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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20 May 2020

Centralised approach to contact-tracing app ‘based on shaky assumptions’

Privacy expert Polly Sanderson told Digital Health News there were ā€œserious issuesā€ associated with relying on the self-reporting of symptoms.
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NHS Covid-19 contact-tracing app
19 May 2020

Government ‘cannot rely on contact-tracing app to ease lockdown’

It is ā€œcriticalā€ that capacity for contact-tracing is advanced for ā€œfurther stages of managing the epidemicā€, according to a government
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30 April 2020

NHSX differs with Apple and Google over contact-tracing app

NHSX has chosen to take a ā€˜centralisedā€™ approach to collecting data on potential Covid-19 contacts, compared to Apple and Googleā€™s
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21 April 2020

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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16 April 2020

Apple and Google join forces in fight against Covid-19

The companies will create contact tracing technology to enable the use of Bluetooth to help governments and health authorities track
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6 April 2020

NHS partners with tech giants to develop Covid-19 data platform

The platform connects the Government and other national organisations responsible for coordinating the UKā€™s response to ā€œsecure, reliable and timely
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Twitter
11 March 2020

NHS working with tech giants to battle coronavirus fake news

The NHS has announced it will work with the likes of Google and Twitter to help the public get easy
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