This is a good thing (£)—UK keeps options open on contract tracing technology
ft.com/content/d44beb… #tracingapp @NHSX
and still signs that the #tracingapp doesn’t work quite as it should
Elsewhere there are claims and counter-claims; for instance the Sun
thesun.co.uk/news/11564646/…
and the Guardian theguardian.com/world/2020/may…
And some user testing that seemed quite positive, via @rowlsmanthorpe
reincubate.com/blog/staying-a…
Consensus from people close to the code seems to be there are some problems; users however haven't always seen them in testing.
Government meawhile downplaying the issues as you’d expect.
All said, getting it to function is just the first part. There’s also questions like user adoption and that includes people trusting the data use. There is a lot of mistrust out there.
In the less than totally short run, Apple and Google have a massive edge to get user adoption.
HT to most of the above @mikarv
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