Update breaks terms and conditions.
Why you can trust Pocket-lint (Pocket-lint) – Apple and Google have thrown as spanner into the works of the UK’s plans to unlock restrictions using the NHS Covid-19 app, by blocking an update designed to allow location sharing. Because the app sits on a framework developed by Apple and Google to ensure user privacy, part of the terms and conditions is that the app cannot be used as a source of precise location data, which is what the UK government wanted it to be used for. The planned update would have allowed users to scan QR codes for venues they visited, which could then be uploaded and used as part of the contact tracing mechanism should an outbreak or positive case get linked to a particular person. Unfortunately, because that breaks the terms and conditions outlined by Apple and Google, an update to allow that functionality has been blocked on the Apple App Store and Google Play Store. Currently, venues can generate QR codes for scanning, but that data then stays in the app and can’t be shared – essentially, using the NHS app, there would be no centralised record of who actually visited a venue.
