Covid app
Britain's delayed virus app launched in England and Wales, after switching to Google-Apple API
The app uses Bluetooth to alert users if they spend 15 minutes or more within two metres of a user who subsequently tests COVID-19 positive.
It's not even privacy that's the issue, yet Europe is cold to Covid apps
A few countries have scrapped their tracing apps and others have found so few users that the technology is not very effective.
Governments, companies should not use COVID apps to find out users' contacts, location: UN body official
United Nations Internet Governance Forum (IGF) Secretariat Head Chengetai Masango said privacy should be paramount.
UK confident COVID-19 tracking system will be in place before lockdown eased
Health workers have warned that any failure in tracing people with the virus and their contacts would result in a second deadly wave
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