Scottish Government moving the goalposts

[grantzer]

I think track and trace failed because the public were warned off it by civil liberty groups.The principle of Big Brother knowing where you are and holding that information without, as I understand it, a clear explanation as to who would be able to access the information is so alien to the British nature that, in this instance I did not sign up for track and trace.

And they ignored a ready made app made by tech companies,that they were offered for free,choosing instead to build their own app,which didn't work,costing around 27 billion I believe,and that figure is rising as they are still currently paying advisors 5 grand a day.

I could have given them an app that didn't work for around a billion......

[BCram]

And they ignored a ready made app made by tech companies,that they were offered for free,choosing instead to build their own app,which didn't work,costing around 27 billion I believe,and that figure is rising as they are still currently paying advisors 5 grand a day.

I could have given them an app that didn't work for around a billion......

Think the free offer was exactly the problem. All the data would belong to the company to use as they saw fit. Ask any UK company involved with this type of technology, I imagine they would be bound to say that they could provide a custom service that the safeguards on data control could be delivered. It didn't work. I think the civil liberty issue is very important and I am disappointed that a British built system did not work. I don't think it was fraudulent but perhaps closer scrutiny of the company commissioned to do the work would show why the project failed. Did Scotland not choose to use a different approach?