In the absence of a working contact tracing app, the UK government has been forced to rely on manual data collection and human-powered tracing to identify potential cases of exposure to the Covid-19 virus. But, as Parliament’s cross-party Joint Committee on Human Rights claims in a new report, this is just as problematic as the original centralized app, particularly when it comes to user privacy
The report acknowledged that human-powered contact tracing has many of the flaws that dogged the original application with respect to the deanonymised identification of individuals. "There has been little public debate of the privacy implications of manual contact tracing, but in some ways, the information gathered is more personal," the Committee said.
"Information gathered by a human contact tracer could feasibly be names of the pe ..
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