Privacy Security for NHS COVID 19 Contact Tracing App

This document provides a high-level overview of the security and privacy characteristics of the app that is in development by NHSx, the digital innovation unit of the National Health Service, to help manage the COVID-19 crisis in the UK.


This is not a full description of the entire system, the socio-technical design, epidemiological modelling or the plethora of other work being performed outside of this application development. Nor does this document detail the significant, diverse, expert input to the overall system and oversight of its development.

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