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

[Martin]

Very aptly and timely, we have in the news at the moment:


Coronavirus: Does anyone have a working contact-tracing app?
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/53168438


BCS: The NHS Contact Tracing App: 9 key talking points
https://www.bcs.org/content-hub/the-nhs-contact-tracing-app-9-key-talking-points/

"Despite a considerable investment of time, money and technical
expertise, the UK Government has announced that it will abandon its
original COVID-19 tracing app..."


Fancy a pint? You might need an app for that
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-53171031



My /personal/ summary is that, with the special exception of the
dedicated hardware implementation used in Singapore, there are likely to
be no usefully working mobile pandemic tracing apps for proximity
tracing. Also, there is presently too much scope for abuse, both by the
users and by whatever controlling authorities...

However... What next?


One to discuss later!

Cheers,
Martin



On 24/06/2020 01:01, Martin via Nottingham wrote:
> Normally there's no cross-boarders working: There's a multitude of
> mutually incompatible apps tied into a particular country/governance.
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> And, and... There is far too much scope for people to abuse and game the
> system...
> 
> And then there is the aspect of the present and future abuse of the
> moment by moment tracking data that can be, or is, collected... Was that
> Baroness Dido's hoped for "cherry on the cake"?
> 
> 
> There has to be a better way.
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> On 23/06/2020 09:00, J I wrote:
>> 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
>> 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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