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Content Type: News & Analysis
Thursday, May 28, 2020
As countries around the world develop contact tracing apps to contain the spread of Coronavirus, they keep facing a problem: for them to be effective a certain percentage of the population has to download them. Something like 60% is the threshold for the app to be effective. So far only Iceland has gotten close with 38% of their country downloading it.
The UK is currently trialling an app, which is designed to notify people if they've been close to someone with symptoms of covid-19 for 15…
Content Type: Examples
Wednesday, May 13, 2020
Canadian federal, provincial, and territorial governments across have put in place numerous emergency measures to curtail behaviour in order to curb the spread of COVID-19. The orders include placing people under quarantine, limiting gatherings, closing schools and businesses, barring most visits to long-term care homes, prohibiting price gouging on necessary goods, and permitting audiovisual witnessing of signatures on wills and powers of attorney.
Source: https://www.intrepidpodcast.com/blog…
Content Type: Long Read
Wednesday, May 6, 2020
On 12 April 2020, citing confidential documents, the Guardian reported Palantir would be involved in a Covid-19 data project which "includes large volumes of data pertaining to individuals, including protected health information, Covid-19 test results, the contents of people’s calls to the NHS health advice line 111 and clinical information about those in intensive care".
It cited a Whitehall source "alarmed at the “unprecedented” amounts of confidential health information being…
Content Type: Advocacy
Wednesday, March 25, 2020
The letter has been signed by more than 40 organisations and it is open for individuals to sign.
At the moment, the Department of Health and Social Care has given no assurance that NHS data will not be shared with the Home Office and used for immigration enforcement, including for those people with a confirmed coronavirus diagnosis.
Assurances which were confirmed by the Irish government as part of their response to COVID-19: last week, during a Parliamentary debate, Irish Minister of Health…