https://tech.newstatesman.com/coronavirus/minister-denies-link-between-nhs-app-and-data-store-as-calls-for-shift-to-apple-google-model-mount > The government has denied that it plans to feed data from its Covid-19 contact tracing app into a datastore managed by the controversial US data analysis firm Palantir. > The claim comes just days after it emerged that the US developer behind the contact tracing app had been granted access to the data store, despite not having any role in its development, prompting speculation that the two systems would be linked.