The UK accidentally left secret plans for its COVID-19 contact-tracing app on an open Google Drive
The UK government accidentally left documents outlining the the potential future for its contact-tracing app on a publicly accessible Google Drive, Wired reports.
According to the documents future versions of the app might ask for more data, track geolocation, and allow people to set a "COVID-19 status."The UK government accidentally revealed some of its future plans for its COVID-19 contact-tracing app by leaving them on a publicly accessible Google Drive., and contained documents including one entitled "Product Direction: Release One" and labelled "OFFICIAL – SENSITIVE.
and is due for a wider national release one to two weeks from now. At the moment the app only asks users for the first half of their post code, and uses Bluetooth to alert them to when they may have come into contact with another user who has reported themself as positive for COVID-19.The document seen by Wired detailed a potential update for the app which would ask users to input more data.
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