Shameful 31/50, had a horrible start with 11 out of first 20 wrong! Oh dear...
Shameful 31/50, had a horrible start with 11 out of first 20 wrong! Oh dear...
I've not downloaded the NHS App yet, and am unsure how to use it,or use a QR code.Anyway, I doubt if my phone is new enough. I'm even less willing to use it,having read about sale of information to third parties. I'm happier to scrawl on a scrap of paper that will be destroyed in three weeks.
As it happens, I have not been encouraged to use the App, in a pub or anywhere else. Quite often, the scraps of paper are not proffered, either.
"At that moment I would have given a kingdom, not for champagne or hock and soda, or hot coffee but for a glass of beer" Marquess Curzon of Kedlestone, Viceroy of India.
'Beer is for all day, not just for breakfast'.
The app is by far the easiest I've used, but it seems that some gormless pubs don't have the NHS QR matrix codes up. I've not heard anything about the sale of information, the Government wanting everyone to upload it so quelling fears of information sale by not allowing it; there's very little information anyway.
As it happens, I was due to upgrade the contract on my obsolete four-and-a-half-year-old phone, so got this. It's very nice, especially the capacity to do AR and it's the cheapest model too.
This presupposes that your tech-savvy friend informs you when he gets a warning. I got a fleeting message saying that I'd been in a plague pit, but the message disappeared before I could read it and I can't find it, so don't know to what venue it relates or when, which isn't good.
There's a list here citing all compatible phones.
I get those too but I believe it's just some sort of housekeeping message rather than a warning or notification. Any notification would (hopefully) be more substantial, hard to tell as the number of notifications sent out about infections in pubs is ...............err 1. (AFAIK)
"Do I know where hell is? hell is in hello"
Perhaps the plague is rampant where you live. When I access the app it tells me that the risk is Medium in my area, but I rarely go out in my area. When I'm in other boroughs - let alone postcodes - it doesn't recognise that I'm in a different area so the threat level remains unchanged.
I don't recall giving anything other than my postcode and phone number - there's nothing in my humdrum life which could possibly appeal to third parties.
But I refuse to give my bank details to pubco apps which have a 'pay as you order' system.
A fairly shoddy piece or perhaps an illustration of how "journalism" works, it's trying to suggest this is about the NHS app but doesn't actually say that, it doesn't name names or present any evidence just the supposition of "experts" whose bias and agenda are unknown to us. More of a surprise than the fact that people don't read Ts & Cs is that they continue to believe internet balls.
It probably does recognise when you're in a different area it just doesn't tell you, the risk level shown is always for the postcode you registered with. My area is medium as well but nearby are Leeds, York, Teesside all of which have high levels of cases and are likely to go Tier 3 once the Government has twisted their arms.
I wouldn't use any of the pubco apps, partly because of what the article is about, also it would be more effective and efficient if everyone used only the NHS app as then there would be a better chance of identifying as many contacts as possible.