The UK proposes laws to protect public services from cyberattacks, including regulating companies providing services to private and public sector organizations
We've all seen how our public services & businesses can be crippled by cyber attacks, costing £15b a year. — This bill aims to help protect our key services like the NHS, transport & energy from att...
NHS doctors warn of safety risks from an outdated IT infrastructure, as the UK government plans to digitize the world's largest publicly funded health service
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France's prime minister recommends government staff uninstall foreign apps like Signal, WhatsApp, and Telegram by December 8, in favor of French chat app Olvid
Wouldn't ever use Olvid: — ● promoted by French minister who considers signal.org insecure — ● uses biometric data — ● not fully open-source — ● not fully free — ● owned by a for profit (nee...
The UK's NHS is using the National Liver Offering Scheme, a predictive scoring algorithm found to have a fatal error, to help decide who gets a liver transplant
Sarah Meredith was in urgent need of a liver when she found out an algorithm would be making the life-or-death decision
Poll: about 20% of UK adults have deleted UK's NHS COVID tracking app; 33%+ aged 18-34 have deleted the app and 20% of all age groups plan to do so
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England's NHS says it will pool medical histories of 55M people, including mental and sexual health info, to share with third parties; opt-out date is June 23
In a first, England's NHS says it will scrape medical histories of 55M patients, including info on mental and sexual health, to be shared with third-parties
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A peer-reviewed study finds UK's NHS contact-tracing app reduced the second wave by roughly 25%, averting ~594,000 out of 1.89M cases from October-December 2020
The NHS contact-tracing app had a significant impact on lowering the spread of the coronavirus in the UK, a peer-reviewed paper has found.
Apple and Google block an update to NHS COVID-19 app that uploads logs of venue check-ins, citing API terms on collecting location data
An update to England and Wales's contact tracing app has been blocked for breaking the terms of an agreement made with Apple and Google.
Researchers estimate that the NHS contact tracing app has prevented the transmissions of ~600K coronavirus infections in England and Wales
Study finds link in areas of England and Wales between high app usage and lower case numbers — The NHS contact-tracing app has prevented …