ICO assessing 15 contact-tracing companies for data protection approach
A number of companies that provide contact-tracing services are being assessed for how they are “approaching their data protection responsibilities”.
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Digital Health Unplugged: October news team debrief with special guests
Special guests James Reed and Dermot O’Riordan join our editorial team to discuss the launch of the NHS Covid-19 App and whether it will have an impact.
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‘Major questions unanswered’ about effectiveness of NHS Covid-19 App
The Health Foundation has raised concerns about the lack of published evidence from the NHS Covid-19 App’s pilots, which it says could risk public trust.
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NHS Covid-19 app ‘more privacy-centric than original model’
Five months on and a government U-turn to a decentalised operating model, Professor Eerke Boiten said the revamped app is more privacy friendly.
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Trials of the NHS Covid-19 App ‘not a waste of time’
Wolfgang Emmerich, founder of Zühlke Engineering, said “I don’t think it [the trial] was wasted” and provided valuable insights for the NHS Covid-19 App.
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NHS Covid-19 app downloaded 10 million times since launch
Some six million people downloaded the NHS Covid-19 app on the first day it was launched, the Department of Health and Social Care said.
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Mobile health apps news in brief
This month’s mobile apps round up features the news NHS Sandwell and West Birmingham CCG renewed a contract to provide a symptom checker app.
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‘Privacy central’ – what our readers think of the NHS Covid-19 app
The NHS Covid-19 app went live today with an easy to use design that includes local risk levels. Here’s what our readers had to say about it.
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‘A customisable approach’ – how contact-tracing apps differ in the UK
Scotland and Ireland chose to go their own way, working with software developers NearForm to develop their contact-tracing app – but what’s the difference?
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Total cost of NHS contact-tracing app set to top £35 million
Some £25 million is expected to be spent on the new app, while £10 million was spent developing the original operating model that was abandoned in June.
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