moochedit
Mr Mooched It
Worked fine for me so far. Scanned 4 so far. Doesn't seem to need internet access either. You may need to move your phone around a bit.
NHS Covid 19 App
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Worked fine for me so far. Scanned 4 so far. Doesn't seem to need internet access either. You may need to move your phone around a bit.
I distrust the Government. I distrust their competency and I distrust them with the data.
colacubes
Mr Hot Cookie
Are you just trying to do it from your camera app? Cos that doesn’t work
You have to actually go into the app and click on venue check in. If you do that it works.
tommers
Fuck it, it's fine.
No i did it using the appAre you just trying to do it from your camera app? Cos that doesn’t work
must be doing something wrong though
colacubes
Mr Hot Cookie
Oh that’s weirdNo i did it using the app
I thought I’d fucked up the first couple of times by trying to do it from my camera but then worked out my error and had no problem since.
scifisam
feck! arse! girls! drink!
I had the same problem today, and I was using the NHS app. Tried three times and each time it said it couldn't read it. Didn't work on my friend's phone either, so it was a fault with the code. They didn't remember to take our details and we forgot to remind them. OTOH we were sitting nowhere near anyone except each other and kept our masks on when talking to the waitress.
I always turn it off when at home. I don't know how likely it is that it'll show up someone next door or anything like that, but there doesn't seem any point risking being told to isolate for something that genuinely isn't a risk at all.
I always turn it off when at home. I don't know how likely it is that it'll show up someone next door or anything like that, but there doesn't seem any point risking being told to isolate for something that genuinely isn't a risk at all.
LDC
On est tous des pangolins
I distrust the government. The data concern has been addressed for me, and the collective benefits outweigh the possible personal disadvantages. And if you use other apps, Google, and the internet generally then it's a bit of a misplaced and illogical worry I think.
FridgeMagnet
Administrator
FWIW, I am a massive data privacy freak (as well as obviously thinking the government have no fucking clue at all, though any sensible person thinks that) and actually can't find anything particularly wrong with the app, and neither apparently can all the other data privacy freak people and groups who I follow, which I actually find really surprising - they would have absolutely jumped on anything at all
the point being that it doesn't send any personal data anywhere. I have a lot of issues with other systems they've set up but this really does seem to me to be properly done.I'm not in the business of convincing people, I'm not on commission, but that was my verdict. I have it on my own phone and I don't even have a Clubcard.
scifisam
feck! arse! girls! drink!
It looked like an official poster - don't know why it didn't work.
Was surprised about paying at the counter too. I suppose for that particular venue it didn't make much difference - you're not going to have people queuing like in a pub, but it still would have felt safer to have the waitress come to us.
FridgeMagnet
Administrator
QR codes are designed to be robustly machine-readable under all sorts of circumstances. If they're not obscured by something but an app still refuses to read them, I'd guess either (a) the app is bust or (b) the QR code has been printed wrong.
Orang Utan
Psychick Worrier Ov Geyoor
Seems that others have been having trouble scanning them too
www.wired.co.uk
The NHS Test and Trace app has two flaws: QR codes and people
A trial in Newham suggests that adoption and the understanding QR codes will be the app’s biggest challenges
FridgeMagnet
Administrator
That's from the 23rd, and I don't see anything about issues scanning QR codes apart from that there weren't any around then.Seems that others have been having trouble scanning them too
The NHS Test and Trace app has two flaws: QR codes and people
A trial in Newham suggests that adoption and the understanding QR codes will be the app’s biggest challenges
scifisam
feck! arse! girls! drink!
I wouldn't put it past some venues to have a QR code that "accidentally" didn't work. Not this place so much, but I could see it happening.
FridgeMagnet
Administrator
Even before the app, a place I went to used to put a login QR code where a vine would constantly fall in front of it
I used to try to helpfully move the vine out of the way each time before I realised nobody else was logging in anyway.
Winot
I wholeheartedley agree with your viewpoint
I hope mine does that! I'm being put into a situation at work which I don't consider safe, and I'd be more than happy with the excuse to isolate for two weeks.
Supine
Newt Member
neonwilderness
What would Badgers do?
I had something similar the other day. I hadn’t been in close contact with anyone for a couple of days, so presumably it decided it wasn’t a problem. Not sure what the point of the alert was, or why it doesn’t show up on the app
Schmetterling
I saw something nasty in the woodshed!
The exact same happened to me earlier this evening.
Don‘t want to link to it but I have just found an article in The Daily Heil that states that it was an unannounced test.
ETA Just seen Winot’s post.
andysays
Love and solidarity
Mrs says heard something about this on the Today programme yesterday morning, that Google and Apple were sending out some sort of proximity alerts which weren't instructions to isolate.
She wasn't listening properly so couldn't remember exactly what was said, but the reporter was Rory Cellan Jones and she thinks it was at about 7am if anyone wants to search on iPlayer.
This might also explain what Orang Utan's boss was talking about.
FridgeMagnet
Administrator
Coronavirus: Some users of NHS tracing app incorrectly given COVID-19 exposure alerts
Users get notifications that they have been near someone who tested positive, but when they click into the app it disappears.
They probably left a debug flag on or something
Actually reassuring to hear something wrong.
souljacker
innit
No. It doesn't have access to location data.
Orang Utan
Psychick Worrier Ov Geyoor
Aye, asked them and they said the notifications were taking them straight to the app and disappearing with no further information about self-isolation. I think genuine alerts provide more info .
emanymton
A cat politely sat on the flaming gardener.
Even if it did, all it would prove is that your phone was moving.
weltweit
Well-Known Member
My point was that if it included location data it could see if I was quarantining properly or not.
existentialist
Tired and unemotional
But it doesn't, so you're OK
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