Who or what is leading who here ? The science ? Google and Apple ? Dominic Cummings ? Or Matthew Gould, the former UK Ambassador to Israel, now reborn as the Technology Supremo of the NHS ?
He's confirmed that the NHS has gone for a "measure of centralisation" of information from its Covid-19 tracking app, against the advice of Apple and Google.
"We don't believe that's a privacy endangering step," Mr Gould told MPs today "But also, by doing so, it allows you to see the contact graph of how this is propagating and how the contacts are working across a number of individuals, without knowing who they are."
Mr Gould also said the app would rely on people's own reporting of their condition. This opens up the possibility of malicious or bogus claims of coronavirus, pushing contacts unnecessarily into self-isolation.
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