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NHS Covid-19 data store doc raises questions about link to contact tracing app

NHS Covid-19 data store doc raises questions about link to contact tracing app

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https://tech.newstatesman.com/coronavirus/nhs-covid-19-data-store-doc-raises-questions-about-links-with-contact-tracing-app

A government document quietly released over the weekend has renewed suspicions that data harvested through the NHS’s contact tracing app will feed into the Covid-19 data store managed by Peter Thiel’s controversial data analysis firm Palantir.

The data protection impact assessment (DPIA) for the data store, which assesses and predicts demand on the health service, reveals that Pivotal – the US firm that is developing the contact tracing app – will have access to the database.

NHS Covid-19 data store doc raises questions about link to contact tracing app

Jun 8, 2020, 11:25am UTC
https://tech.newstatesman.com/coronavirus/nhs-covid-19-data-store-doc-raises-questions-about-links-with-contact-tracing-app > A government document quietly released over the weekend has renewed suspicions that data harvested through the NHS’s contact tracing app will feed into the Covid-19 data store managed by Peter Thiel’s controversial data analysis firm Palantir. > The data protection impact assessment (DPIA) for the data store, which assesses and predicts demand on the health service, reveals that Pivotal – the US firm that is developing the contact tracing app – will have access to the database.