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Re:UK virus-tracing app switches to Google-Apple model by robin_reala on Thursday June 18, 2020 @09:27AM (#23562881)
Leaving the app to one side, NHS Digital has been doing good stuff for the last couple of years: https://digital.nhs.uk/
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Re:UK virus-tracing app switches to Google-Apple model by Mindwipe on Thursday June 18, 2020 @10:29AM (#23563421)
They do, and there were good people working on this.

That said, my suspicion is that they have good track records of working with open web stacks, and were somewhat less familiar with the realities of working with closed app platforms that relate to hardware integration, and that's where they came unstuck.

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Re:UK virus-tracing app switches to Google-Apple model by toyg on Thursday June 18, 2020 @09:37AM (#23562964)
Which is why this government is keen to gut it and outsource it all to the likes of Babylon.
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