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Levy also glossed over the fact that as soon as someone agrees to share their information with UK government – by claiming to feel unwell and hitting a big green button – 28 days of data from the app is given to a central server from where it can never be recovered. That data, featuring all the unique IDs you've encountered in that period and when and how far apart you were, becomes the property of NCSC – as its chief exec Matthew Gould was forced to admit to MPs on Monday. Gould also admitted that the data will not be deleted, UK citizens will not have the right to demand it is deleted, and it can or will be used for “research” in future.
There goes the gdpr right to be forgotten.
This stinks. UK govt seems to repeatedly think 'having a bash at it' will be good enough and that this stuff doesn't actually need to be done by experts. I think an article in here followed a similar theme on this attitude.
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https://www.theregister.co.uk/2020/05/05/uk_coronavirus_app/
...sigh. It's looking to be a mess.
Oh, and the Leave campaign AI firm is involved in it, and lots of other government contracts. Nepotism is alive and well.
But they couldn't get them to do the EU Settled Status App, perhaps that was too difficult :p