UK Government criticised over privacy of manual contact tracing

21/09/2020 | The Register

Parliament's cross-party Joint Committee on Human Rights has published a stinging review of the UK Government for failing to protect people's privacy while it conducts human-based contract tracing to identify possible cases of exposure to the Covid-19 virus. The new report highlights the current process is just as bad as the centralised app that was scrapped earlier in the year. 

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