The UK Government for England and Wales Coronavirus contact tracing app went live on 24 September 2020. I have been using this app since and monitoring its performance as well as comments from users on the Android Play Store. Permissions On the Google Play Store, the following are the permissions that need to be enabled to... Continue Reading →
New UK Coronavirus Test & Trace App in Trial
On the 13 August 2020 the UK government released a revised Contact Tracing app to be trailed on the Isle of White, the London Borough of Newham and NHS volunteer responders. In addition to the Contact Tracing function it also has other features including: An alert system that informs users of the coronavirus risk level... Continue Reading →
UK Coronavirus Contact Tracing Update
This is an update to my blog Location Tracking, Your Privacy & COVID 19 Contact Tracing to bring this up to date with the recent developments in the UK. The UK were going to develop a COVID 19 Contact Tracing App using a hybdrid technology that was centralised and in which they owned the data... Continue Reading →
Location Tracking, Your Privacy & COVID 19 Contact Tracing (Updated)
UPDATED 9 May 2020 to reflect the recent announcements from the UK government around how the proposed contact tracing app will work. Updated 23 May 2020 to add details of the Google/Apple Contact Tracing/Notification API. Updated 20 June 2020 to reflect the latest updated from the UK government regarding their decisions around their Contact Tracing... Continue Reading →