The NHS contact tracing app will ask users for personal details despite concerns about patients’ privacy. If a user develops symptoms they can inform the NHS, triggering an alert sent to other users they have come into contact with. The news comes after more than 175 UK academics signed a letter voicing concerns about the app. Dr Natalie Banner, from the group Understanding Patient Data, warned personal details ‘could make people identifiable’. An NHSX spokesman said: ‘Users will remain anonymous up to the point where they volunteer their own details, and there will be no database that allows the de-anonymisation of users.'

Source: Daily Mail May 02, 2020 00:12 UTC