The UK Government is controversially considering using GPS from mobile phones to improve the efficiency of the NHS Ap designed to fight the Covid 19 pandemic.
According to top level sources contacted by Future Intelligence the Government has even considered whether it can invoke emergency powers under the Data Retention and Investigatory Powers Act to allow it to demand access to GPS data if it decides it is necessary to fight the disease.
“They have talked about it, but they concluded that they would have to redraft parts of the Act if they wanted to commandeer GPS data from the mobile phone companies.
The controversial NHS Ap being piloted on the Isle of Wight could be the latest in a series of expensive NHS IT blunders unless the Government takes drastic action according to experts interviewed by the PassW0rd radio programme.
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