How can it be anonymous if they’re going to contact you to stay at home?Nefarious wrote: ↑Tue Jun 02, 2020 6:33 pmNot multi-million? Only a fraction have been disclosed yet (we're still waiting for the national audit office report, as the government is failing to follow its own transparency guidelines on publishing the details), but government published documents show a total of 177 contracts awarded since 26 March with a total value of £1.1bn, of which 115 were awarded under the emergency non-tendering process, with a total value of "just over £1bn". We have no idea of the value of the Deloitte, KPMG, Serco, Sodexo, Mitie, Boots or Palantir contracts yet.Rich B wrote: ↑Tue Jun 02, 2020 4:40 pmSo still not multi million pound contracts, unless you use your magic source estimate.Nefarious wrote: ↑Tue Jun 02, 2020 4:23 pm
1) It's one of a series of contract, not all of which have had their value disclosed. Of those which have been disclosed, the total to Faculty alone is £1.6m. I've seen estimate for the total at over £4m. That total doesn't include the value of the data afterwards, which is retained by Faculty.
Rev - what is the need for all the high-level, multi-source ID verification for a contract tracing app that's supposed to be anonymous?
You do know I’m not writing the app, right? I’m just pointing out that there’s likely uses of data that are not a printout of everything you’ve ever put on Facey B and your credit card payment history.
It’s one thing being vigilant, but you’re getting a bit Pearl-clutchy.
Just applying common sense tells you they’re not going to need your credit history, so what do they want with CRA data? ID is the only realistic option I can think of. Maybe there’s something else, I don’t know.
Same with social media stuff. It’s common to use the Facebook login API. Maybe they also plan to use your friends list and check ins to track you and who you were with? It’s not going to be very accurate or useful, so I can’t see why you’d use that over handset location.