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Faulty contact-tracing app would undermine public trust

14 May 2020

Professor Sir Jonathon Montgomery (UCL Laws), speaking in his role as head of NHSX’s ethics committee, has warned that the UK’s Covid-19 tracing app could lose public trust if it did not work properly, especially if it showed false positives or negatives.

Read: Telegraph (£), Listen: BBC Radio 4’s ‘Today Programme’ (from 1 hour 16 mins 55 secs)