{"id":328,"date":"2020-04-28T13:59:07","date_gmt":"2020-04-28T12:59:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rmpaterson.com\/blog\/?p=328"},"modified":"2020-04-28T13:59:07","modified_gmt":"2020-04-28T12:59:07","slug":"why-wont-the-uk-save-more-lives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rmpaterson.com\/blog\/2020\/04\/why-wont-the-uk-save-more-lives\/","title":{"rendered":"Why won&#8217;t the UK save more lives?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>This article by Ben Lovejoy highlights the bad judgement employed by the UK NHS in choosing to create its own contact tracing app for monitoring CoVid-19.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-wordpress wp-block-embed is-type-wp-embed is-provider-9-to-5-mac\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"fMEmSdKavT\"><a href=\"https:\/\/9to5mac.com\/2020\/04\/28\/apple-api\/\">Comment: It&#8217;s no exaggeration to say UK rejection of Apple API will cost lives<\/a><\/blockquote><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"&#8220;Comment: It&#8217;s no exaggeration to say UK rejection of Apple API will cost lives&#8221; &#8212; 9to5Mac\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; clip: rect(1px, 1px, 1px, 1px);\" src=\"https:\/\/9to5mac.com\/2020\/04\/28\/apple-api\/embed\/#?secret=fMEmSdKavT\" data-secret=\"fMEmSdKavT\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Sometimes big business makes really great decisions on behalf of the community it services. Not all decisions are about making money.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The UK approach will not be accepted by all. Certainly not by me for all my usual privacy reasons.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I still don&#8217;t fully trust Google, but if they&#8217;re working in conjunction with Apple, I am happier that they are both working in our best interests.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The UK government has, like others, made some &#8220;interesting&#8221; decisions during the pandemic. This one feels like it has been politically motivated.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I will use any app that uses the Apple\/Google API. That means I won&#8217;t use the NHS one.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This article by Ben Lovejoy highlights the bad judgement employed by the UK NHS in choosing to create its own contact tracing app for monitoring CoVid-19. Sometimes big business makes really great decisions on behalf of the community it services. Not all decisions are about making money. The UK approach will not be accepted by &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rmpaterson.com\/blog\/2020\/04\/why-wont-the-uk-save-more-lives\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Why won&#8217;t the UK save more lives?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[27,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-328","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-covid-19","category-privacy"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rmpaterson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/328","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rmpaterson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rmpaterson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rmpaterson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rmpaterson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=328"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rmpaterson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/328\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":329,"href":"https:\/\/www.rmpaterson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/328\/revisions\/329"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rmpaterson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=328"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rmpaterson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=328"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rmpaterson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=328"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}