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Re:The failed rollout of Britain's covid-19 app were the res... by makomk on Monday June 22, 2020 @08:16AM (#23599350)
Apparently the particular decentralized API exposed by Google and Apple might have some limitations in terms of being able to accurately estimate things like the distance between people compared to using Bluetooth directly too, which is a bit of an issue: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-53095336
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Re:The failed rollout of Britain's covid-19 app were the res... by unfunco on Monday June 22, 2020 @10:17AM (#23600419)
That was the excuse given by Matt Hancock but it's almost certainly bollocks.

Google has 7,000 people working on maps, Apple has 4,000 people working on maps, is it really possible that a few app developers assembled by the tories (who have a track record of failure and lies) have stumbled upon a more accurate way to calculate the distance between devices than the 11,000 people that work on these problems full-time have ever managed?

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