Britain could ditch its coronavirus contact-tracing app before it has even been rolled out nationwide, a senior government minister has admitted.
Communities secretary Robert Jenrick revealed the app - being piloted on the Isle of Wight - may need to 'adapt' or 슬롯사이트추천 'move to a different model
r />Fewer than 50,000 people living on the island, or 35 per cent of its population, have downloaded the app since the trial began last w
r />But experts say around two-thirds of Britain - the equivalent of 40million people - will eventually need to install the app for it to work.
r />The app, which works using Bluetooth, alerts users if they have been in close contact with someone who has reported symptoms of COVID
r />But its design has sparked privacy concerns, with officials admitting the 'centralised' NHS approach sees personal data stored in one databas
r />Other nations have adopted an app model which stores data in a 'decentralised' way, meaning the app does not harvest location data.
r />Google and Apple's own decentralised tech has been adopted by European nations including Germany, Ireland and Switzerlan
r />Health chiefs - keen to roll the app out nationwide in the next week - are understood to be looking at switching to the system used by the two tech giant
r />It comes after Boris Johnson last night turned the screw on Matt Hancock by vowing the government would increase daily testing to the hundreds of thousa
r />The embattled Health Secretary will be tasked with delivering the Prime Minister's ambitious goal - despite failing to hit his own 100,000 target for eight days in a ro
r />Only 52 per cent of Britons said they would download the NHS contract tracing app (pictured) - but experts say it needs 60 per cent of the population for it to
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Communities secretary Robert Jenrick revealed the app - being piloted on the Isle of Wight - may need to 'adapt' or 슬롯사이트추천 'move to a different model
r />Fewer than 50,000 people living on the island, or 35 per cent of its population, have downloaded the app since the trial began last w
r />But experts say around two-thirds of Britain - the equivalent of 40million people - will eventually need to install the app for it to work.
r />The app, which works using Bluetooth, alerts users if they have been in close contact with someone who has reported symptoms of COVID
r />But its design has sparked privacy concerns, with officials admitting the 'centralised' NHS approach sees personal data stored in one databas
r />Other nations have adopted an app model which stores data in a 'decentralised' way, meaning the app does not harvest location data.
r />Google and Apple's own decentralised tech has been adopted by European nations including Germany, Ireland and Switzerlan
r />Health chiefs - keen to roll the app out nationwide in the next week - are understood to be looking at switching to the system used by the two tech giant
r />It comes after Boris Johnson last night turned the screw on Matt Hancock by vowing the government would increase daily testing to the hundreds of thousa
r />The embattled Health Secretary will be tasked with delivering the Prime Minister's ambitious goal - despite failing to hit his own 100,000 target for eight days in a ro
r />Only 52 per cent of Britons said they would download the NHS contract tracing app (pictured) - but experts say it needs 60 per cent of the population for it to
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r />Video shows packed subway platforms in Paris as France... Boris Johnson's back-to-work speech descends into chaos as... Terrifying moment revelers run for their lives after gunman... 'He got caught. OBAMAGATE!' Donald Trump steps up his
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