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    Re: Track and Trace Archived Message

    Posted by Marion on 18/6/2020, 7:30 pm, in reply to "Track and Trace "

    From what I have read its a cock up but the technology talk is all lost on me

    Seems the boffins and government politicians didnt speak to the Apple and Google in advance , Ive cribbed this info from the media.

    The NHS had hoped to build an app that kept an anonymised central database of anybody an infected person had come into contact with.

    But Apple and Google refused to endorse that approach and said they would only redesign their operating systems for governments that used a decentralised approach, where no data was held in a single official database.

    NHS developers spent weeks trying to find a way of making their approach work, but it failed because once Apple phones had “gone to sleep” because they were inactive, they stopped communicating via Bluetooth.

    Jonathan Ashworth, the shadow health secretary, said: “This is unsurprising and yet another example of where the government’s response has been slow and badly managed. It’s meant precious time and money wasted.

    “For months tech experts warned ministers about the flaws in their app, which is why we wrote to Matt Hancock encouraging the government to consider digital alternatives back in May.

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