Would you use the App?

Yes if it’s going to help lessen amounts of deaths and our isolation.

We're being told that it will be as safe as possible and not invade our privacy - although the system knows your postcode you get a random identity. Anyone being informed that they've been in contact with someone with the virus isn't told who that person is.

Or so I understand. I would check again before installing the app.

However, if it's going to help us get some 'normality' back and is good for the wider community then, yes, I'd use it.

I would definitely install it because it can help reduce infections. Another way that technology can help fight the virus.

I would use it but I think it’s a very flawed system.

No I wouldn't use it. It is a very inaccurate measure of who might have been in contact. Plus it is a step too far in government data collection

It's an invasion of privacy. I'd still use it but I'd delete it as soon as it was OK to. I suppose it's a swings and roundabouts situation. I don't want to be tracked but on the other hand I need to do all I can to protect others. This seems the only way atm so I'll download it.

We all think that the government knows too much about us. So how come they have got things like the "vulnerable list" wrong with people left off etc.?
I am happy to share data as I've nothing to hide.

I would download it - exceptional times, so we have to be flexible.

Yes of course!!!!

Nope. Too late, not efficient unless the majority use it and more importantly, Cummings and Cambridge Analytica.

Let's hope it works.
It does seem a pity that we could not have used the one developed for EU . The two different systems, could apparently cause problems with those wanting or needing to travel to Europe , according to an item on the Today programme.

I most certainly would.

We are traced multiple times a day as it is if we have a smartphone/ use online shopping / google etc.

I will do anything which helps the UK get working safely and defeats this flipping virus

Yes I would although at present I am rarely leaving my front door.

Yes I would, providing we can definitely know that it's safe.
Anything which helps is surely good.

Yes I will use it. As for privacy- I haven’t got anything to hide so it doesn’t worry me. I am getting to the point where I’m fed up with having my life on hold so anything that will help I’m happy to go along with.

There was an interview on television the other day where a woman complained that the people on the Isle of Wight were being used as guinea pigs. It isn’t going to affect their health so what’s the issue?

Yes of course

Yes. Nothing to hide and the more people who download it the better. I’ll try anything to help get us back out and about.

Haven't got a smartphone.

Yes I'm not doing anything dodgy I'm quite boring and predictable, not a social animal, so it might not be of much use!

Yes I would. Anything that just might help.

It isn't compulsory to use, I assume it can be deleted if someone no longer wants to use it.

Why do people automatically assume the government have evil intentions when all they are trying to do is track the virus and help save lives

Yes I definitely would. Anything which has a chance of preventing the spread of Covid 19 seems an obvious thing to do. I have no secrets.....well not that the government would be interested in!!

If it's any help, this is an explanation of the app and how it works, by the Deputy Digital Editor of 'Wired' a web based magazine.

threadreaderapp.com/thread/1257352111089745920.html

The government are being at pains to emphasise that your data is completely anonymised and you cannot be traced by it. Some people are not so sure:

twitter.com/mikarv/status/1257566527664111616

You make your choice,really.

To those people who are saying 'I haven't done anything wrong'. It's all well and good now, but what if the government brought in a law that said no-one over 70 was allowed to leave their house and used tracking data from the app to enforce it, with a hefty instant fine for lawbreakers?

How,if you're over 70, would you feel about that?