UK COVID-19 contact-tracing app data may be kept for 'research'

Britons will not be able to ask NHS admins to delete their COVID-19 contact-tracking data from government servers, digital arm NHSX's chief exec Matthew Gould admitted to MPs this afternoon.

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2020/05/04/uk_covid_app_human_rights_parliament/

The government's contact-tracing app will be rolled out in Britain this week. A demo seen by The Register showed its basic consumer-facing functions. Key to those is a big green button that the user presses to send 28 days' worth of contact data to the NHS.

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https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/apr/12/uk-government-using-confidential-patient-data-in-coronavirus-response

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