Coronavirus: Disease Control
(asked on 30th October 2020) - View Source
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether the in-app notifications sent to UK Facebook and Instagram users on the day the national covid-19 lockdown was announced to alert them to the new rules provided free of charge to the Government.
This question was answered on 16th March 2021
The NHS Covid-19 app sent no such notifications. Users of the NHS Covid-19 App are anonymous and it is not possible for the app to identify and send messages specifically to United Kingdom Facebook and Instagram users.