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Health Sec Hancock says UK will use Apple-Google API for virus contact-tracing app after all (even though Apple were right rotters)

Richard 12 Silver badge

Re: The conference was interesting

Hancock was talking bollocks. Apple say they haven't even been contacted, and it turns out that NHSX haven't even done any testing of the Apple/Google system at all.

As many people have pointed out, the technique itself has quite large unavoidable errors.

Being charitable, someone probably told Hancock that the technique is quite imprecise, and he simply doesn't understand that the NHSX app is using the same technique.

Would be very hard to explain that to him though as he has no understanding of what "2m" or "social distancing" looks like anyway.

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