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Episode 24: NHS Track and Trace App: are privacy and practicality issues a barrier to success?

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Karen Heaton/Data Protection 4 Business

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4.811 Ratings

🗓️ 6 October 2020

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

This episode is part of our series of updated podcasts addressing security & privacy concerns resulting from the coronavirus pandemic and the shift in working practises for millions of businesses across the UK and the world. In our discussion we first talk about the NHS Track and Trace app and ask "how did we get here?" with app #2 being released five months after app #1. We then explore whether track and trace apps are prevented from being successful due to privacy and practicality issues and whether this is a worldwide problem. During our discussion, I recommend a very important film "The Social Dilemma" which is available on Netflix. This is an must-watch film for everyone, especially parents with teenagers, pre-teens and young adults. Given some of the important issues raised in this episode, we will be recording Part 2, where we bring in a panel of specialists to start the discussions on how to address the practicality and privacy issues which can prevent track and trace apps from being effective during a pandemic. GDPR Now! Is brought to you by Data Protection 4 Business & This Is DPO. www.dpo4business.co.uk www.thisisdpo.co.uk. Guest This episode features a software professional with 30 years experience in software projects across a multitude of industries including retail, banking, defence and automotive and for the last 10 years, the NHS. David founded a successful IT company which provides services to the NHS and writes for https://lockdownsceptics.org/ a blog founded by Toby Young, where a range of pandemic related data is analysed and presented.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hello and welcome to another episode of GDPR Now, a podcast dedicated to all things related to data

0:10.1

security and data privacy brought to you by Data Protection for Business.

0:15.2

Your host today is me, Karen Heaton, owner of Data Protection for Business.

0:19.0

I'm recording from my home office in southwest London.

0:21.9

This episode's part of our series of podcasts,

0:25.5

addressing security and privacy concerns,

0:28.1

coming from the coronavirus pandemic

0:30.9

and the shift in working practices

0:33.1

for millions of businesses across the UK and the world.

0:36.4

Now, in this episode, we're going to talk about the UK track and trace app

0:41.3

and explore whether track and trace apps are prevented from being successful

0:45.7

due to some privacy and practicality issues.

0:49.4

So I'm delighted to have joining me today, the airways from Cheshire, a software professional

0:56.4

with over 30 years experience in software projects, many in different industries, including

1:02.0

retail, banking, defence and automotive.

1:05.5

And in the last 10 years or so, the NHS.

1:09.0

Our guest, David, has a particular interest in NHS IT because he founded his own

1:15.8

software company and he works in that sector. So he's in a unique position to give us a benefit

1:20.4

of his experience. The government's track and trace app is going to be the subject of our conversation

1:25.6

today. And David writes regularly

1:28.3

about tracking trace apps in general in lockdown skeptics website, which is run by Toby Young.

1:35.3

So David, welcome to GDPR now. We're delighted to have you here.

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