App being created for NHS to warn users if they have been near infected people

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Technology could be used as early route out of lockdown for those in the clear, says disease expert

The health service’s digital innovation unit will test a pre-release version of the software with families at a secure location in the north of England next week, the BBC reported.University of Nottingham

 

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Why? So they can panic and then not be able to get a test? How about an app to direct them to the nearest food bank? Do something useful.

We were warned.

No good for me, I don't have a phone stuck to my ear... Never use one, Never will

This app already exists. Ask China to share it.

Some things are just too dangerous no matter how beautifully wrapped they are presented. Just imagine an add on to this app that tells you, you are near a white supremacist or a convicted tax evader! Maybe someone with the wrong pronouns!!!!

No it warns you if you been near the person's phone and breaks so many data protection law and human rights laws it untrue

What could go possibly go wrong? Amazing how profit-driven tech companies have an app for every crisis. Govt. contracts especially lucrative.

What happens when that service is hacked by a hostile actor?

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