To find it scary that people have willingly downloaded the track and trace app?

[SunnyThatsMyName]

This all reminds me of the start of some sci-fi/thriller movie.
Why are people so easily giving away their details to this useless government?

BTW, it looks like there's some good work on data being done at this project, run partly by Dr Ben Goldacre whom I mentioned above (my bolding).

opensafely.org

OpenSAFELY is a new secure analytics platform for electronic health records in the NHS, created to deliver urgent results during the global COVID-19 emergency. It is now successfully delivering analyses across more than 24 million patients’ full pseudonymised primary care NHS records, with more to follow shortly. All our analytic software is open for security review, scientific review, and re-use. OpenSAFELY uses a new model for enhanced security and timely access to data: we don’t transport large volumes of potentially disclosive pseudonymised patient data outside of the secure environments managed by the electronic health record software company; instead, trusted analysts can run large scale computation across near real-time pseudonymised patient records inside the data centre of the electronic health records software company .
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The only information to ever leave the data centre is summary tables (with low numbers suppressed) from statistical models.

@PhilCornwall1

The Alice Cummings / Idox thing is nonsense, Idox isn’t involved with the app and Alice isn’t related to Dominic.

However, it’s worth reading this article on how Dominic Cummings’ Vote Leave buddies are involved with the app:

bylinetimes.com/2020/05/06/whitehall-analytica-vote-leave-firm-tied-to-cambridge-analytica-will-configure-nhsx-contact-tracing-app/

And the paper referred to which included co-Faculty AI employees as co-authors:

cdn.theconversation.com/static_files/files/1009/Report_-_Effective_App_Configurations.pdf?1587531217

www.theguardian.com/society/2020/jun/17/nhs-covid-19-contact-tracing-app-no-longer-a-priority-says-minister

Absolutely disgusted to read this today. The government had an opportunity to use the technology which is up and running in Germany but has chosen to develop its own app which won't be ready until winter. Undoubtedly this will result in many deaths which could have been prevented. Oh and coincidentally the health minister has millions of pounds of his own money invested in the UK NHS app!