Analysis Worried about identifiable personal data from your coronavirus contact-tracing app making it into a British government database? Fear not! The Ministry of Defence is sanitising it all first.
The bizarre and not-particularly-reassuring pledge came from the MoD last night as it announced that one of its units, called jHub, would be “facilitating the secure transfer of relevant symptom and epidemiology data from the third party COVID-19 apps to the NHSx datastore.”
Public fears are already running high after official COVID-19 contact tracing app maker NHSX’s CEO admitted to Parliament that data harvested by the app would be retained after the pandemic ends for “research”.
Jhub is a military sci-tech thing that aims to bring “market ready or near market technology” into the hands of the armed forces. ..
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