https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-54448223

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-humber-54434612

Glaxo-Smith Kline and Rix Petroleum agree

The app does not tell you to isolate; it simply advises that you may have been exposed to the virus. It’s up to you to decide whether or not to isolate. You only MUST isolate if you have been told to do by an appropriate person eg a doctor, or someone from NHS track and trace, or you have had an official positive  test or you are sharing a house with some who has tested positive.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-54465356

Teachers

When the app was first being discussed it was assumed that it would in someway be linked to an “appropriate person” who would in some way activate a team all kitted out like the  Child Detection Agency from Monsters Inc. These people would turn up on your doorstep as soon as you presented the symptoms and test and isolate you. Of course, the government have now realised that they can’t do that-it would commit a vast amount of resources which they just have not got.   

To be realistic are you telling me that everybody with a bit of a fever or a bit of a cough or some other vague symptom are self isolating without being told to do so by Track and Trace. If that was the case, then the pandemic is over, and we have nothing to worry about!

How many times do people get onto this forum to ask for advice on how to wriggle out of  reporting under RIDDOR?  

It was an interesting point about people keeping their mobile phones in their work lockers during work time. We do ask our employees to not have their phones on them when they are working and to either keep them in lockers or cars etc (they don’t, but we ask), as it is unsafe for them to use a phone in some work areas. This I guess could easily record they were withing 2m of someone for the best part of the day if in locker or even car.

Interestingly, in the much talked about world beating app which didn’t materialise, there was lots of assurances about not misusing the tracking info. Oddly no such assurance for the latest NHS versions.

I also wonder what constitutes 15 minutes is that one block of 15 minutes, or can that be 15 lots of 1-minute encounters? (you know when someone is walking behind you in the supermarket and you catch up to one another or synchronise the other sides of an isle so you get to the middle the same time they do, but the other side.

Chris

Oh; and it is the Apple-Google contact-tracing app, using bluetooth low-power. The original NHS (well, private-company) design collected the size of your underwear, this one doesn't!