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Re:Police told not to download NHS Covid-19 app by JamesBarney on Monday September 28, 2020 @01:26PM (#24619076)
Won't it just tell you if a police officer is within 2 meters for 15 minutes?

Except for undercover or plain clothes police officers this doesn't seem like a big deal.

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Re:Police told not to download NHS Covid-19 app by sc11 on Monday September 28, 2020 @02:58PM (#24620100)
The tracing app itself will only tell you that but you can receive the BLE signals with other bluetooth sniffer apps.
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