App U-turn: England abandons developing own contract-tracing app for Google-Apple model

It was supposed to be the high-tech key to tracking the progress of coronavirus in England and helping to unlock society. (Subscribe:

But after months of questions over privacy and whether the technology would work the government has abandoned its own contact-tracing app.

Instead, the version developed by Apple and Google is to be used but that too has problems.

So is it a failure of technology, or of government strategy?
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