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28 May 2020

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 ā€œpositive receptionā€ on the Isle of Wight, but no date
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26 May 2020

NHSX seeks remote monitoring suppliers to manage Covid-19 pressure

In a tender notice the organisation called on remote monitoring companies with ā€œevidenced examplesā€ of the successful use of their
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21 May 2020

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
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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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19 May 2020

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
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19 May 2020

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
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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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15 May 2020

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
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15 May 2020

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
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14 May 2020

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
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