Ireland donates contact tracing app to Linux Foundation

Re:Ireland donates contact tracing app to Linux Foundation by Someone on Monday July 20, 2020 @11:22AM (#23898688)

I don’t know specifics about the UK version, but most of those costs likely weren’t on the app proper. They did run a field test, for example.

For comparison, the German version cost millions, too. That included multi-language support, setting up help lines, security evaluation, load testing millions of concurrent users and, IIRC, connecting to quite a few of different hospital computer systems.

Add in time pressure, and costs go up. Germany did get a quality system, judging by what the spokesman for the Chaos Computer Club said (paraphrasing: ‘we have the unfamiliar problem that there is so little to complain about’. They never endorse stuff, so that’s about as endorsing as their statements can get)

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Re:Ireland donates contact tracing app to Linux Foundation by donaltroddyn on Monday July 20, 2020 @11:45AM (#23898949)

It also includes the DPIA, which in itself can be an expensive process. There was a lot of concern/press in Ireland pre-release about the privacy implications of the app. It's hot on the heels of a "mandatory but not compulsory" national ID card fiasco that was determined to be unlawful by the privacy regulator last year: https://www.thejournal.ie/psc-no-legal-basis-4766822-Aug2019...

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Re:Ireland donates contact tracing app to Linux Foundation by ericlewis on Monday July 20, 2020 @06:49PM (#23902710)

You’re not wrong.

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Re:Ireland donates contact tracing app to Linux Foundation by ericlewis on Monday July 20, 2020 @06:48PM (#23902704)

We ran a field test too. But again; I probably can’t talk about that much. Sorry. If you have more in depth technical questions I might be able to answer them.

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