NHS COVID-19 contact tracing app is leaving some unable to access government self-isolation grants The NHS COVID-19 contact tracing app for England and Wales* has a major flaw. Yes, another one. People told to self-isolate by the app are unable to access a code required to claim a £500 financial support grant. The grant is designed to support low-income workers on benefits who are unable to work from home. At present, only …
I thought it was a feature. Instructions to isolate from the app are purely advisory, not legally binding, and I'm not sure there's any way to determine an individual has genuinely received such an instruction.
That means anyone fancying a small windfall could claim they were told to self-isolate and demand their free £500.
The government won't pay for school meals, seems to want to drown migrants in the Channel, so I'm not surprised there's no magic code for a free handout of cash.
And I'm not surprised that lying shit Hancock is lying again. This government has a full quota of world-beating lying liars.
The government won't pay for school meals, seems to want to drown migrants in the Channel, so I'm not surprised there's no magic code for a free handout of cash.
The Government does pay for school meals. The Government is declining to pay for meals for children that aren't in school. Their parents already receive money from the Government to pay for those meals.
As for migrants drowning in the Channel, if they're stupid enough to get into a dingy when they can't swim and fall out in French waters, I'm really very confused how you think that's anything to do with the British Government. If you think this is an issue that needs to be addressed perhaps you should write to the French authorities and tell them to prevent people traffickers from operating from their shores and stop idiots from taking to sea in breach of French law.
Schools have been open since September.
Local councils already receive Government funding to address local needs. Why aren't they assuring children are appropriately looked after?
As for poverty, really? Child poverty in this country is almost non-existent - go to rural areas in central parts of Africa and tell me that British children are in poverty.
Sorry, you'll have to forgive me for being raised in a household with no spare cash, wearing second hand clothes, never eating fast food and never flying anywhere on holiday until I was in my late 20s. I like the state providing a safety net for people but I also firmly believe in people taking responsibility for themselves.
Matt Handjob is a serial liar in answer to questions on the house. I can't quite figure out how motivation. It could be v that his boss's inability to tell the truth has rubbed off on him. It could be that he gives the answers he thinks will get people of his back for at least a few hours, at least until they have gone out and checked his answers and found out he's lying. But I suspect the real reason is that he is actually totally gullible and he simply replies with the facts given to him by his lackeys and contractors without checking his facts first.
Obviously not. Out of sight, out of mind:
Parliament restaurants not complying with test-and-trace rules, says union
On Thursday, we visited a place to have a cuppa - very quiet, outside, in a low risk area so as safe as possible. We were told that the name and phone number is legally required - regardless scanning the QR.
Which seems to make yet further nonsense of the system.
(We have previously been told, elsewhere, that scanning the QR was sufficient.)
It's one or the other, but as always, some people don't bother to learn and understand the rules and use their faulty interpretations.
Just look at DBS certificates (previously CRB) My work sometimes takes me into schools, where I'm invariably asked if if have one. I do, because our company pays out for them to done/renewed as required, but we don't need them. We are never left unsupervised with children, let alone the SAME children on at least two occasions within two weeks as per the rules, but schools are in CYA mode and insist we have a cert. One school even insisted they had to see mine. I told them no. Here's the Cert No., phone up and check if you must but you have no legal right to physically see it. They got antsy about it but did whatever they do to check the Cert No. and very grudgingly agreed that all they need to know was that I was not prohibited from working there. Whether I was a reformed mass murderer wasn't relevant and they didn't need to know :-)
OK so here's a perfect example of Handjobs lying ways:
On Monday he told the BBC that Johnson was talking to Marcus Rashford.
Minutes later Rashford said he hadn't spoken to number 10 since June.
Shortly after that number 10 clarified that Johnson hadn't spoken to Rashford since "summer" (there's accuracy for you) they didn't go so far as to call Handjob a liar outright but they may as well have done.
The man actually tells more porkies than his boss.
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These warnings were generated by the underlying APIs provided by Google and Apple, and are now followed by a separate push notification that tells users to disregard them.
Oh no it doesn't...
I've had a couple of these so far. The separate message turns up a couple of hours before the 'Possible COVID-19 exposure' notification. I also still don't understand quite why it generates this when the other apps don't, something is missing in the 'underlying APIs' explanation.
In my case, it works as advertised, no idea why it doesn't for you. But yes, the underlying Goole/Apple API generates the warnings but at different trigger points to what the NHS has set, hence the sending of the relevant data to the NHS servers and response back to the phone indicating an actual exposure risk. The problem seems to be the inability of the "wrapper" app to suppress the API notices. Clearly the fix was too hard for the devs, so they changed the server app to send out a message telling us to ignore the first message.
The problem is that the wrapper app *can't* suppress those notifications.
In short, the NHSX devs found that the official Google/Apple API is too sensitive and triggers based on very basic criteria. They found a way to be able to fine-tune the criteria so that it only actually triggers self isolation in the app if their more sensitive criteria is triggered (side note, they are trying to get Google/Apple to either back-port their improved algorithm into a future version of the API or get them to provide more raw data with the API on bluetooth signal strength so the algorithm can be further refined and tweaked by the various national apps)
However due to the way the API alerting is implemented it's not possible for the wrapper app to catch and suppress the original alert, only to then follow it with their own which is based on their more accurate analysis of what little information the API makes available to the wrapper app.
As for why the report button isn't available this is a consequence of the privacy model - Google/Apple only approve national apps to use the API if the app itself has no way of collecting information on an individual. Since pressing a button to claim the grant would inevitably require being able to identify the end user (as otherwise how do you pay them the grant) the devs had to pull that feature at the last minute or risk GApple rejecting the app.
I assumed it was something along those lines, but I haven't heard of people getting spurious self isolation notices with stop covid NI (maybe the people I know have less exposure of course).
They found a way to be able to fine-tune the criteria so that it only actually triggers self isolation in the app if their more sensitive criteria is triggered
That'd be less sensitive criteria surely?
"Clearly the fix was too hard for the devs..."
If I access location services, the OS will prompt for permission. There's nothing I can do to work around that. (Apple affords me the ability to tailor the message - but that's it.) The best I can do is give you a warning.
I haven't looked at this API. But I imagine it's similar - except with even less control. The flip side of having security and privacy guaranteed is the loss of control by the devs. Doesn't quite meet your needs? Tough. This is how GApple have said it will be.
Risk level in my neck of the woods has shot up from Low to HIGH.
Number of cases in the county in previous 24 hours = One. Deaths = None. Cases per 100,000 = 0.8.
It appears that being in an area impacted by restrictions (Wales) is nonsensically interpreted as changing the risk level. The restrictions could be seen as reducing risk level further!
Baroness Harding, the Tory peer who leads the government’s much-criticised test-and-trace programme, should be removed and replaced, a senior Conservative MP has said.
Sir Bernard Jenkin, MP for Harwich and chair of the powerful parliamentary liaison committee, called for her to be given a “well-earned rest” and moved on to focus on “lessons learned”.
--->A Beer for the Peer. (Please drink up before 2200)
A TV news report said the significance of this is it is the first time Dido Harding has been criticised. Ha! Maybe it is the first time she has been criticised publicly by a doyen of her party, but it's widely accepted she should be sent to a farm up-state and put out to pasture.
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