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Experts react to government’s U-turn on contact-tracing app

Industry leaders said the government should ensure ethics and privacy are “correct by design” in its new contact-tracing app.
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Virtual Summer School 2020 programme published

The full programme for the Virtual Summer Schools 2020 has been published with the event just over three weeks away,
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Contact-tracing app U-turn ‘shouldn’t distract from wider data concerns’

Professor Eerke Boiten raised concerns about the companies with “strong political connections” that have access to the data.
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NAO report highlights “complexity of the NHS digital landscape”

The team behind a report into digital transformation across NHSE have said they think it highlights the “complexity of the
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NHSX publishes £3m tender to help phase out pagers

The solutions must enable secure messaging; image sharing; staff directory linked to the NHS.net address book; and calls.
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NHSX ‘knew contact-tracing app wouldn’t work on iPhones in April’

Apple and Google's APIs only work with a decentralised system, which leaves many iPhones incompatible with the NHS centralised contact-tracing
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Poll: Did the gov make the right decision about the contact-tracing app?

In light of the government U-turn on the NHS contact-tracing app, Digital Health News wants the opinion of our readers
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Covid-19 tracking tool appears on smartphones – but it’s not an app

The new exposure notification settings are part of an update to the operating systems, which will enable an app to
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Tory peer reveals NHS contact-tracing app has cost £11.8m to date

The NHS contact-tracing app has so far cost £11.8million, the parliamentary under-secretary of state for innovation has revealed in the
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Government abandons contact-tracing app for Apple and Google’s tech

A parallel version of the NHS contact-tracing app using Apple and Google’s technology had been in the pipeline since early
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