Britain's contact-tracing app, and its policies, are absurd. As a result, the app won't do much to quash Covid-19, and people don't want to install it.

If Britain fixed its policies, and made its app respect privacy, people would eagerly use it. Even I would use it, if I could run it on a device that had no microphone and that didn't report anything about me except the data needed for contact tracing.

The UK government is being sued for plans to collect and retain too much data.

Quashing Covid-19 justifies an increase in tracking, but it has to collect and centralize the least data possible.