
UK comms experts continue to question contract-tracing app
The UK government may have earned some plaudits for attempting to use a mobile contact-tracing app to aid the fight against Covid-19, but the controversy over its nature, in particular its centralised database, is rumbling on.
On 4 May, the government, backed by leading experts in the UK’s epidemiology, IT and communications sectors, released more information on how the app – the first details of which were announced on 24 April – would work in its first scale trial on the Isle of Wight.
Developed by NHSX, the NHS’s digital healthcare innovation unit, the contract-tracing app works by using Bluetooth