UK racing to improve contact-tracing app’s privacy safeguards

NHS officials are racing to introduce greater privacy safeguards for the contact-tracing app at the centre of the government’s lockdown exit strategy amid mounting concern from security experts, MPs and users.

It plans to complete the appointment of an ethics board to improve oversight and publish the software source code in the next month, and has not ruled out “a sunset clause”, agreeing to delete all data collected once the country returns to normal.

Source: UK racing to improve contact-tracing app’s privacy safeguards | Technology | The Guardian