NHS Covid-19 app

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NHS Covid-19 App updated to fix disappearing exposure alerts

The messages were caused by default privacy notifications from Apple and Google to alert users their app is sharing contact-tracing
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ICO assessing 15 contact-tracing companies for data protection approach

A number of companies that provide contact-tracing services are being assessed for how they are “approaching their data protection responsibilities”.
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Digital Health Unplugged: October news team debrief with special guests

Special guests James Reed and Dermot O'Riordan join our editorial team to discuss the launch of the NHS Covid-19 App
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‘Major questions unanswered’ about effectiveness of NHS Covid-19 App

The Health Foundation has raised concerns about the lack of published evidence from the NHS Covid-19 App's pilots, which it
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NHS Covid-19 app ‘more privacy-centric than original model’

Five months on and a government U-turn to a decentalised operating model, Professor Eerke Boiten said the revamped app is
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Trials of the NHS Covid-19 App ‘not a waste of time’

Wolfgang Emmerich, founder of Zühlke Engineering, said “I don’t think it [the trial] was wasted” and provided valuable insights for
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NHS Covid-19 app downloaded 10 million times since launch

Some six million people downloaded the NHS Covid-19 app on the first day it was launched, the Department of Health
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Mobile health apps news in brief

This month’s mobile apps round up features the news NHS Sandwell and West Birmingham CCG renewed a contract to provide 
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‘Privacy central’ – what our readers think of the NHS Covid-19 app

The NHS Covid-19 app went live today with an easy to use design that includes local risk levels. Here's what
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‘A customisable approach’ – how contact-tracing apps differ in the UK

Scotland and Ireland chose to go their own way, working with software developers NearForm to develop their contact-tracing app -
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