Quote Originally Posted by BCram View Post
I am surprised. I thought that the whole discussion was based on the exact opposite view. My apologies. I can see why the actual choice made looks silly. It is odd that all the local parliaments chose different systems.
Looked into it a bit more Apple and Google offered to add in the tracing system for nothing. It would be part of their systems and as you say not centralised but it seemed to be something to worry about. Article I read seemed to think that the bluetooth option that was preferred was hopeless right from the start and Serco who were supposed to be the main operator got a shedload of money then failed to deliver. It seemed that big bad american tach companies were not to be trusted and nice friendly British politicians were a much better bet. As Rross has been suggesting for some time controll seems to be the name of the game.

how you get people to trust politicians when politicians don't trust their electorate seems to be an insurmpountable problem for us.