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Draft bills calls for greater assurance of privacy in contact-tracing app

If the bill becomes law, government would be required to set up an independent contact-tracing app Privacy Tzar to monitor
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Government ‘cannot rely on contact-tracing app to ease lockdown’

It is “critical” that capacity for contact-tracing is advanced for “further stages of managing the epidemic”, according to a government
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Unreliable contact-tracing apps ‘could provide false sense of security’

The ethics advisory board tasked with overseeing the NHS contact-tracing app has raised concerns about the reliability of an app
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NHS organisations facing “significant” digital transformation challenges

A report by the NAO has concluded that local NHS organisations are facing “significant challenges” when it comes to working
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International Nurses Day: Natasha Phillips reveals her ambitions for NHSX

Inclusion in the decision-making process is vital, the NHSX CNIO says, as is encouraging digital nurses to bring other nurses
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NHSX ‘ignored communications about flaws in Bluetooth contact-tracing’

A computing company has raised several concerns with Bluetooth contact-tracing, instead suggesting a system based on QR Codes would be
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All you need to know about the NHS contact-tracing app

As the NHS’ contact-tracing app moves closer to a national roll out, Digital Health News has rounded up everything we
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Data from NHS contact-tracing app ‘to be kept for research purposes’

NHSX has always maintain that data would be deleted if a user chose to remove the app, but a spokesperson
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Covid-19: NHS contact-tracing app launched in Isle of Wight

The contact-tracing app will form part of the next phase of the governments test and trace approach to help stop
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NHSX differs with Apple and Google over contact-tracing app

NHSX has chosen to take a ‘centralised’ approach to collecting data on potential Covid-19 contacts, compared to Apple and Google’s
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