{"id":1113,"date":"2021-04-12T15:44:25","date_gmt":"2021-04-12T13:44:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2021\/04\/12\/apple-and-google-block-nhs-covid-app-update-over-privacy-breaches\/"},"modified":"2021-04-12T15:44:25","modified_gmt":"2021-04-12T13:44:25","slug":"apple-and-google-block-nhs-covid-app-update-over-privacy-breaches","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2021\/04\/12\/apple-and-google-block-nhs-covid-app-update-over-privacy-breaches\/","title":{"rendered":"Apple and Google block NHS Covid app update over privacy breaches"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>App was to have been updated before English lockdown easing, but firms objected to data-sharing changes<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/series\/coronavirus-live\/latest\">Coronavirus \u2013 latest updates<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/coronavirus-outbreak\">See all our coronavirus coverage<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Ministers have paused a planned update to the NHS Covid-19 app after Apple and Google blocked it from their stores over privacy violations.<\/p>\n<p>The app, which aids contact tracing in England and Wales, uses technology built by the Silicon Valley companies to track interactions between users with their bluetooth signals and venue \u201ccheck-ins\u201d.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/apr\/12\/apple-and-google-block-nhs-covid-app-update-over-privacy-breaches\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/a0c1d32f851fc8f677d52a71a2761bb61ef7e150\/268_0_1574_944\/master\/1574.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=025e2fc8e4bd78fc30114a90bc49a41b\" title=\"Apple and Google block NHS Covid app update over privacy breaches\" \/>App was to have been updated before English lockdown easing, but firms objected to data-sharing changes<\/p>\n<p>Coronavirus \u2013 latest updates<br \/>\nSee all our coronavirus coverage<\/p>\n<p>Ministers have paused a planned update to the NHS Covid-19 app after Apple and Google blocked it from their stores over privacy violations.<br \/>\nThe app, which aids contact tracing in England and Wales, uses technology built by the Silicon Valley companies to track interactions between users with their bluetooth signals and venue \u201ccheck-ins\u201d. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>App was to have been updated before English lockdown easing, but firms objected to data-sharing changes Coronavirus \u2013 latest updates See all our coronavirus coverage Ministers have paused a planned update to the NHS Covid-19 app after Apple and Google blocked it from their stores over privacy violations. The app, which aids contact tracing in &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2021\/04\/12\/apple-and-google-block-nhs-covid-app-update-over-privacy-breaches\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Apple and Google block NHS Covid app update over privacy breaches<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":1114,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1113"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1113"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1113\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1114"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1113"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1113"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}