NHS contact tracing app

Thank you for feeding the troll .

There's quite good Numberphile explanation of the API here:

Neither of them has any way to turn the anonymised id into anything useful, so access to either system is useless for that.

Its known that plenty never do and some don't even get any symptoms at all.

Like, "hum

That's uncommon.

But still well know, most obviously with that individual who got infected at a conference in Singapore, then ended up in one of the ski fields in western europe and infected lots of people, very early on.

or in the

That one is trivial to find using google.

that's just a typical "it illegally collects too much data" mantra

so what

if it works

we need analysis of whether it works not data protection bollocks

I was talking about generic apps

well we don't have that rule

and never will

why, who wants to sync yup with a fitbit minute by minute?

I do mine (alternative brand), once a day

I do

Because if you do then text messages, person calling and calendar alarms can be made to appear on the wrist, which can be handy, if the phone is in a pocket. But you may choose not to do that, esp if it leads to a significantly shorter battery life for you.

battery life or not, I don't want an activity watch to do these things

I'd rather have extra development put into making it better at tracking/reporting my activity

tim

We do know now that's not quite correct, data will leave your phone if you suspect you're ill and tell the app.

Apparently so ...

Only 1st 3 characters of postcode, only used for spotting "hot zone".

I regard the outside world including car as dirty. Every time I come back in I use one door via the garage and immediately sanitise my hands. Car keys (and one dog lead) are kept in the garage. Going to any shop I wear disposable gloves all the time. That takes care of trolleys touch screens etc. I try not to touch mobile phone but if I do it is sanitised on return along with credit cards used and folder. AS far as I can ascertain the virus has short life span on absorbent materials such as newspaper, cardboard and cotton fabric, but can last 3 days + on metals and hard plastics. The one exception seems to be copper. All post is put to one side and quarantined for 24 hours.

If I disappear from this newsgroup you will now that either a) the above measures have failed or b) I just got pissed off with the crap on here.

The furloughing system knocked up in a couple of months seems to be doing quite well.

But your comment could apply to almost all software esp operating systems.

In article snipped-for-privacy@mid.individual.net>, Joshua Snow snipped-for-privacy@hotnail.com writes

As far as you know.

There's no doubt that the outdoors should be closed.

Oh dear, not much use here - our first part of the code is 4 characters long.

It actually asks for the first *part* of the postcode, not a specific number of characters.

That would certainly narrow it a bit.

Good F*ck off you won't be missed.

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