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& #39;s obdurate reliance on British exceptionalism & crony corporations run by mates of Dominic Cummings? https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-53095336">https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/tech...

It was obvious many weeks ago that the govt& #39;s approach to its contact tracing app was deeply flawed. I set out the reasons why in this thread on 3 May.

It& #39;s worse than mere incompetence. The whole sorry business stinks of corruption at the highest level. https://twitter.com/Tom___Scott/status/1256978338033422338">https://twitter.com/Tom___Sco...

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

https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="☑️" title="Kästchen mit Häkchen" aria-label="Emoji: Kästchen mit Häkchen"> Multi-million £ contracts to Vote Leave cronies
https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="☑️" title="Kästchen mit Häkchen" aria-label="Emoji: Kästchen mit Häkchen"> Multi-million £ contracts to corporations recently found guilty of massive fraud (Serco)
https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="☑️" title="Kästchen mit Häkchen" aria-label="Emoji: Kästchen mit Häkchen"> Multi-million £ contracts to Tory donors (Deloitte)

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