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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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Everything to do with mobile phones stinks, anyway, but this is what has long been suspected, which is that the data surveillance people are using it as an opportunity to further their agendas. Plenty of reporting that they're heavily involved.
Also reports of the 'death by a thousand cuts' privatisation agenda being advanced in the NHS.
When Corbyn tried to accuse the Tories of selling off the NHS just before the election, in a move that seemed poorly researched and was unconvincing, he didn't say clearly enough that the way this is being done is by stealth--by lots of different little measures, couched in obscurifying management speak, and now of course under cover of the pandemic.
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If their mates get contracts it is fine, sure? /sarcasm
There are some really good informed lords on IT issues, but a lot of politicians are just plain useless/don't care. And not just the Tories, Labour wasn't great on the snooping law either. This is mega blatant though.
And we really need to be able to trust them right now, bad timing for yet another fuckup.
Oliver Schick
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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