UK virus-tracing app switches to Apple-Google model.

How many millions, how many months & how may lives will have been lost by the government's obdurate reliance on British exceptionalism & crony corporations run by mates of Dominic Cummings? https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-53095336

It was obvious many weeks ago that the govt's approach to its contact tracing app was deeply flawed. I set out the reasons why in this thread on 3 May.

It's worse than mere incompetence. The whole sorry business stinks of corruption at the highest level. https://twitter.com/Tom___Scott/status/1256978338033422338

Those world-beating contact-tracing system criteria in full:

Multi-million £ contracts to Vote Leave cronies
Multi-million £ contracts to corporations recently found guilty of massive fraud (Serco)
Multi-million £ contracts to Tory donors (Deloitte)

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