UK contact tracing app: will it be effective?
Emma Wright, Partner at technology and digital specialist law firm Kemp Little, discusses the various thorny issues around the NHSX contact tracing app, including its effectiveness, the privacy issues surrounding the technology, and possible discriminatory effects
Emma Wright, partner, Kemp Little
It was the 17th of March when Channel 4 raised the use of a UK contact tracing app. Since then coverage has been building, a pilot has been rolled out on the Isle of Wight and a NHS Ethics Advisory Board...
More on Health
Do we need tougher breach notification rules?
The Travelex ransomware raises the question, once again, of whether organisations should be obliged to provide more information
Lifting lockdown: the emerging role of the contact tracing app
The NHSX contact tracing app is currently being trialled on the Isle of Wight, but has the government picked the best approach for privacy and effectiveness?
Xiaomi is tracking users through browser and other apps, security researchers claim
The Chinese firm is currently among the world's top four smartphone manufacturers by market share
Fairphone partners with /e/OS for a privacy-enhanced version of its FP3 smartphone
/e/OS is a 'de-Googled' fork of Android with trackers removed
Covid-19 contact tracing app based on Apple-Google API could be vulnerable to data harvesting, EEF warns
Accurately estimating the distance between two devices is also a significant challenge
Back to Top
