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Comment: It’s no exaggeration to say UK rejection of Apple API will cost lives

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<p>We learned yesterday that the UK has decided to <a href="https://9to5mac.com/2020/04/27/uk-national-health-service-releasing-coronavirus-contact-tracing-app-without-using-apple-api/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">reject the joint Google/Apple API[/url], and instead go its own way in creating a <a href="https://9to5mac.com/guides/coronavirus/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">coronavirus[/url] contact tracing app.</p>
<p>This decision is not just dumb – reinventing the wheel, when there is already a plug-and-play solution available – but it is no exaggeration to say that the flaws in the UK approach will end up costing lives …</p>
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