It isn't installed.
That is the service that configures the phone settings needed for an app to work.
If you don't specifically have an app installed then the service isn't used.
Think of it like a video display driver needed for a game. The video display might now be ready for the game...
I suspect enough people will download it in the end.
Not many will be aware of ( or even care about ) Cummings' connection to it, nor of Vote Leave personnel involvement, nor anything about Cambridge Analytica history.
But some will make their own choice given the background info above.
Ah, told off again for spreading "disinformation".
Everything is verifiable.
And I've no inclination to take anything up with ICO.
Much less effort to just avoid the app.
But I really will not keep responding now.
Enough.
All of it.
I don't trust Cummings. It would have to become law for me to give him anything.
It's the thin end of the wedge.
That'll be my last word, but as I said if things change then I'm open to changing my view.
Yes, it's a shame.
"If the app had been produced openly, sandbox tested by trustworthy experts, and by a Cummings independent group then I would use it."
I was told off on the other thread for expressing reservations, so I will simply say 2 things.
1) I don't trust Johnson and Cummings at all.
2) The producers of the "NHS" app are directly linked to the Vote Leave campaign.
I don't want Cummings' cronys to have any access to my data, so...