<div dir="ltr"><div>How will any of these apps work across borders? Will you need to install the app for every country you visit?</div><div>And keep in mind, the efficacy of these apps is yet to be proven.<br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, 18 Jun 2020 at 20:04, Martin via Nottingham <<a href="mailto:nottingham@mailman.lug.org.uk">nottingham@mailman.lug.org.uk</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">A mere month later and sure enough:<br>
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England ditches central database model for test-and-trace apps in favour<br>
of Apple/Google [decentralised] approach<br>
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Plus: Contact-tracing contracts dished out reportedly worth £108m<br>
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<a href="https://www.theregister.com/2020/06/18/uk_ditches_central_database_model/" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.theregister.com/2020/06/18/uk_ditches_central_database_model/</a><br>
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So... How much of our money has been squandered on that?!<br>
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To gold line the pockets of who?...<br>
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Hopefully there will be some tracing of how and where our money got<br>
thrown away on that one?...<br>
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One to follow yet further...<br>
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Stay safe!<br>
Martin<br>
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On 22/05/2020 02:06, Martin via Nottingham wrote:<br>
> On 07/05/2020 15:05, Martin via Nottingham wrote:<br>
>> Folks,<br>
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>><br>
>>> What do you all think to this?<br>
>>><br>
>>> Richard Stallman was right all along to leave his mobile phone OFF?<br>
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> What a bunch of comedians?!...<br>
> <br>
> See what you think?...<br>
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