Uk Makes U Turn In Switch To Apple Google Covid Tracing System
The difference is that Apple and Google’s model processes potential contact matches on individual phones, whereas the centralised system the UK started with processed matches on a remote server. The new system makes it far more difficult for potential hackers to deanonymise sensitive personal data. The BBC reported that the old system was particularly bad at measuring distance between users via Bluetooth, with a test in the Isle of Wight only registering 4% of nearby iPhones compared to 75% of Android phones....