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Baroness Finlay of Llandaff
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Lord Bethell (Con)
My Lords, we are looking carefully at the Apple express system. It does not contain the substantial investment in the algorithm from the Alan Turing Institute that gives our own app the sensitivity and protection that phone users are seeking from such a device. We have looked carefully and worked extremely intensely with Apple on the battery and our understanding is that the app does not have a large impact on battery use.
Baroness Finlay of Llandaff (CB) [V]
When will the equality impact assessment be published for the trial in Newham of the test and trace app that uses the Google-Apple technology?
Lord Bethell (Con)
The results of the Newham trial are analytical rather than about the privacy assessment, which has already been published. What we learned from Newham was that security concerns among that community were profound and, therefore, we shaped our marketing in order to address those concerns.