[Nottingham] [Misc] UK ... almost alone ... centralized virus contact-tracing app

J I jasonirwin73 at gmail.com
Tue Jun 23 08:01:06 UTC 2020


How will any of these apps work across borders? Will you need to install
the app for every country you visit?
And keep in mind, the efficacy of these apps is yet to be proven.

On Thu, 18 Jun 2020 at 20:04, Martin via Nottingham <
nottingham at mailman.lug.org.uk> wrote:

> A mere month later and sure enough:
>
>
> England ditches central database model for test-and-trace apps in favour
> of Apple/Google [decentralised] approach
>
> Plus: Contact-tracing contracts dished out reportedly worth £108m
>
> https://www.theregister.com/2020/06/18/uk_ditches_central_database_model/
>
>
> So... How much of our money has been squandered on that?!
>
> To gold line the pockets of who?...
>
>
> Hopefully there will be some tracing of how and where our money got
> thrown away on that one?...
>
> One to follow yet further...
>
>
> Stay safe!
> Martin
>
>
> On 22/05/2020 02:06, Martin via Nottingham wrote:
> > On 07/05/2020 15:05, Martin via Nottingham wrote:
> >> Folks,
> >>
> >>
> >>> What do you all think to this?
> >>>
> >>> Richard Stallman was right all along to leave his mobile phone OFF?
>
> > What a bunch of comedians?!...
> >
> > See what you think?...
>
>
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