NHS contact-tracing app

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29 June 2020

Contact-tracing app U-turn ‘shouldn’t distract from wider data concerns’

Professor Eerke Boiten raised concerns about the companies with ā€œstrong political connectionsā€ that have access to the data.
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26 June 2020

Reassurance on privacy of contact-tracing app remains ‘crucial’

Harriet Harman, chair of the joint human rights committee, has written to Matt Hancock requesting further information on how data
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NHS Contact-Tracing App
25 June 2020

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
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NHS Covid-19 contact-tracing app
12 June 2020

Results of first week of test and trace are in – app is still out

The app was designed to speed up the process of contact-tracing, with epidemiologists previously warning manual contact-tracing would be too
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12 June 2020

‘Apparent failure’ of contact-tracing app hinders test and trace system

A report criticised the governmentā€™s decision to develop a centralised contact-tracing model, raising concerns about ā€œconfidentiality and security of data".
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11 June 2020

Contact-tracing app data ‘could feed into NHS Covid-19 data store’

The data protection impact assessment on the store, managed by Palantir, provides a look at how data will inform the
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NHS Contact-Tracing App
9 June 2020

Why trust is key to the user adoption of the NHS contact-tracing app

Our cyber-security expert,Ā Davey Winder, delves into the NHS contact-tracing app, looking into why trust is key and the issue of
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7 April 2020

Timeline: What happened with the NHS Covid-19 app

Digital Health's senior reporter, Andrea Downey, takes a look at the NHS Covid-19 app, what went wrong during development and
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