Five myths about the emergency alert debunked including accessing your personal data and whether or not it breaches GDPR.
Any claims suggesting that the alert will lead to the collection of personal data, matched with that collected when people signed into venues during the, are not true. The Cabinet Office confirmed that the alerts would not collect personal data and would not allow the government to know phones' activity status or location.
The government website said the alert is 'one-way' and confirmed the warning does not require the government to know any individual phone numbers. As no data is collected, it can't match Covid-19 data. The NHS Covid-19 app did not share personal data, such as someone's name and address, with local authorities, only sharing the time and date an infected person visited a venue.Full Fact debunked claims saying that network providers will have breached GDPR by allowing the emergency alert to occur. GDPR legislation broadly dictates how organisations, businesses and the government use personal data.
During an alert, phone masts broadcast the warning to all compatible phones and tablets within their range. The government will not use personal data, like phone numbers, to do this. It means your network provider has not breached GDPR 'by giving your number to another agency outside of your permission' because the alerts are sent to phones connected to cell towers, not via a list of numbers that networks have sent to the government.
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