The UK government's efforts to build a centralized contract tracing app from scratch were plagued by poor technical execution and chaotic personnel management
The failed rollout of Britain's covid-19 app will damage digital contact tracing efforts worldwide—but its troubles were the result of clear, specific errors.
Gov said its app was more accurate at calculating distance than Apple-Google's protocols. Apple tells the Times: “It is difficult to understand what these claims are as they haven't spoken to us.... We don't know what they mean by this hybrid model” https://www.bbc.co.uk/... http…
Why did the NHS contact tracing app go wrong? For months people have been pointing out technical issues, a trust and transparency problem, risks created by centralisation, constant delays and the speed of delivery (or lack of it) https://www.wired.co.uk/...
Media coverage of the UK's contact tracing app efforts has often been confused, which in turn muddies attempts to understand what went wrong. https://www.technologyreview.com/ ...
Ouch. This piece by Wired UK about failure of the NHS's original contact tracing app is detailed and damning. The NHS version managed to only detect contacts in 4% of cases on iPhones! Like it or not, using the Google-Apple system is the only way here https://www.wired.co.uk/...
The failed rollout of Britain's covid-19 app will damage digital contact tracing efforts worldwide—but its troubles were the result of clear, specific errors. https://www.technologyreview.com/ ...
#NHS Covid-19 contact-tracing app for UK will not be ready before winter | first, they said, it would be ready mid-May. Now mid-Winter. The latest fiasco putting the public at risk @UKLabour @JonAshworth @guardian https://www.theguardian.com/ ...