Who in their right mind would download Matt Hancock's Covid app?

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'Leaving aside the track and trace app's fiddliness, downloading it is like volunteering to be spied upon by the health Stasi,' writes RossjournoClark

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Who in their right mind would want to download Matt Hancock’s track and trace app, which has finally made its way off the Isle of Wight and is available all over England today?

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Why mention Stasi ? When you have GCHQ?!

Not me for sure!

GSheralee Volkischer Beobachter complaining about the Stasi! You couldn't make this up!

Never would I download it and I make sure everyday my Bluetooth is turned off

monkeymonk2012 So far over 10 million of us who want to help do our best to reduce Lang term harm ❓

I don't have any issue with it, I downloaded it today and I'm looking forward to checking in with it. It's on my burner phone though, I'm not stupid!

Majeh19 For 100s of years PoliceStates have been dreaming & trying to keep track of where all their citizens are & what they’re doing & who they’re meeting ... & today all people seem to worry about is that they can’t download the PoliceState App! Some just don’t deserve to be free!

Majeh19 If u think u need the Government’s NHS TrackAndTrace App to tell you if you’re ill from CoronaVirus then you have MentalHealth issues! Don’t help them create a PoliceState! Covid19 is about CONTROL & POWER not ur safety!

LutherB99406283 The entire second wave is a false positive.

INVENTOR OF THE PCR, TELLS IT IS NOT TO BE USED, AS IT CREATES FALSE DATA, AND OPEN TO USE FRAUDUENTLY,WHICH GOVERNMENT IS DOING,TO KEEP THE FAKEDEMIC/PROPAGANDADEMIC/INFODEMIC GOING WITH 'FALSE CASES'

rockyrose Come on Press you could end this Sham right Now! This One Covid Lie Will Bring Down The British Government via YouTube

RobStaveley Well I’ve downloaded it, and happy to do so. Used it today. The alternative is to fill in forms which are far more of a nuisance.

GhostBarrister Not particularly, but well done for scaremongering.

We went through all this handwringing back in May. The app just helps tracers fill in the gaps and pick up some people who may otherwise only be found if they come forward. It just makes tracing (slightly) easier

kheatherbrown I'm not downloading it,I've been asked to sign in to a QR code at a few places but unfortunately my old phone can't download the app.... 'Leaving aside the track and trace app's fiddliness, downloading it is like volunteering to be spied upon by the health Stasi'

HookyGolfer How long before that becomes mandatory as well?

How long before they want to chip us like our dogs at the vets? Its already happened for some idiots in Sweden...

johnedwards5 Not me!

lyndsay_hopkins It will mean many survive Covid!

No more than the Apple and Google API. Do you know anything about this subject?

If it was an NHS app. I’d download it. It’s not, so I won’t.

Having worked for serco where my personal documents were left on a desk for any body to read and then was brushed under the carpet. I would not trust them with anything

dont have a phone

...am I being stupid but the App is one of the simplest I’ve ever seen...download...enter part of postcode...switch on tracker ....done...

BeddoeRoger Looks good to me.

Pysdoscience and now conspiracy theories. now covering all the 'investigative journalism' clickbait!

Matt himself!

no thanks

Now the telegraph joins the mail in becoming a red top and nutty.

This article is very irresponsible

Are you doing something wrong? What are you afraid of?

I'm not agreeing with you. If this app told there are few COVID19 cases neighborhood , people in the locality will be more cautious. If we behave carelessly, the virus again will become havoc which brings fresh restrictions and hence harming the already fragile economy

They even text you 😡 NHS stalkers 🤣🤣

I think the fines are ridiculous, but this article is nonsense. The app isn’t fiddly, the data stays on the device and even if you get an alert, the only person who knows is you.

THIS IS NOT A DEMOCRACY. THIS IS A PROTECTION RACKET

ticktock

Birdybabe07

I have nothing to hide, do you

Yep - Let the old and sick use it.

Please remind me how I can switch my subscription to the Sports pages only? I don’t want to pay for Ross Clark and Allison Pearson’s selfish columns anymore. Thankyou

I agree.

Angry Bird- Matt Hancock is so smug in his realisation, that Boris won't sack anybody, because he wants to keep his majority! So Matt is safe to, continue his daily bird poop on the population.

Profs Heneghan, Gupta Oxford, Prof Mark Woolhouse Edinburgh, Nobel Prof Michael Levitt, Stanford, Swedish epidem. Anders Tegnell behavioural scientist Prof Dingwall: Their arguments rational and evidence-based, received no coherent answer to date.

Not by the NHS but by the inept Serco. TrackAndTraceApp

Remind us how much advertising revenue the Telegraph has taken from the Chinese Communist Party in the past year.

Anyone that owns a mobile phone or has an Internet IP addresses is already spied on, & has been for years. 😂 Who do you think provided the govt with the stats on lock down compliance? GOOGLE 😂

What you really wanted to say was the health Gestapo, but you're too cowardly. How dare you insult the memory of those who lived under the tyranny of the real Stasi. You appalling human being.

OMG, is The Telegraph going to be the people's champion on this? I'll be a customer again, if you get stuck in.

RossjournoClark Alexander Armstrong and Amanda Holden, apparently.

RossjournoClark

InProportion2 RossjournoClark

RossjournoClark

RossjournoClark What a ridiculous comment What data would they sell You passed another phone with Bluetooth.. In the meantime use Google, Facebook, twitter, maps etc etc that track everything and sell use all your data

RossjournoClark

DrTeckKhong RossjournoClark Simple-do not download it.

oldmudgie RossjournoClark I liked the observation that they've spunked millions on re-inventing Foursquare.

InProportion2 RossjournoClark All completely useless unless we have a test system that can actually detect cv19. Current system provided over 90% False positive, using a test that can't detect any infection. If cv19 an issue all 'cases' would be treated. Aim here is to keep this going until vax available

paulrey99 RossjournoClark

InProportion2 RossjournoClark The better question is who in their right mind would waste millions to develop a covid-19 tracking app:

paulrey99 RossjournoClark Oh dear the biased, news again

paulrey99 RossjournoClark Resulting in medical fascism

RossjournoClark Thank you. The rest of the media, what do you think?

RossjournoClark POLICE BRUTALITY TODAY IN LONDON

ItsmeyouneedUK RossjournoClark People that want to be locked in there houses again 😂

RossjournoClark Not a chance

RossjournoClark Grow up, this is shit and you know it

RossjournoClark surveillance tool

RossjournoClark i agree. that's literally what it is. how could this be controversial in any way? it's just a fact. thanks fake news

RossjournoClark Even though its confidential? The torygraph anti covid agenda continues. Gross journalism🙄

RossjournoClark I wasn’t thinking of downloading the app but having read this rubbish from the Telegraph with the usual weird libertarian paranoia I am starting to change my view.

RossjournoClark idiot

RossjournoClark I think it's great, not fiddly at all, easy peasy! Pssst, Anyone that owns a mobile phone or has an Internet connection is already being spied on 😂Give your head a wobble!

RossjournoClark What? There's nothing fiddly about it!? Easiest app to download and sign up to! I'm against some measures but the app is the least of the issues.

RossjournoClark The prime minster looking ever more porcine.

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