Covid-19: NHS Contact Tracing App Debate

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Covid-19: NHS Contact Tracing App

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Arrangement of Business
Monday 18th May 2020

(3 years, 11 months ago)

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My Lords, the testing and tracing regime depends on three legs: access to tests; updated methods of the classic contact tracing run by individuals, using phones and the internet; and lastly, importantly but not exclusively, the NHS app. We are very much focused on ensuring that the vulnerable, the elderly and the digitally poor are in no way excluded, which is why we have put the human element at the centre of our plans.

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Will the Minister give a cast-iron guarantee that, as the app evolves, it will not use location tracking or seek personal identification information as a condition of use?

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