UK snubs Apple-Google coronavirus app API, insists on British control of data, promises to protect privacy

UK snubs Apple-Google coronavirus app API, insists on British control of data, promises to protect privacy

Why do it at all? Easier to audit and adapt, apparently


Analysis The UK has decided to break with growing international consensus and insist its upcoming coronavirus contact-tracing app is run through centralised British servers – rather than follow the decentralized Apple-Google approach.


In a blog post just before the weekend, the CEO of the National Health Service’s tech unit NHSX Matthew Gould, and the app’s main overseer Dr Geraint Lewis, said their new smartphone application will launch “in the coming weeks,” and stressed it “could be important in helping the country return to normality and beating coronavirus.”


But within the details over how it would work, the memo revealed the NHS and UK government reckon the contact-tracing protocols buil ..

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