The whole NHS Test and Trace organisation seems very strange. Going by recent news reports, it's not just Harding who comes from a retail background, several of

The whole NHS Test and Trace organisation seems very strange. Going by recent news reports, it's not just Harding who comes from a retail background, several of the other top people do, too. What they don't seem to have done is hire top people with a technical or management background in either public health or technology, which you'd think might be slightly important for an organisation with this remit. In other news, I'm looking forward to hearing about how a system apparently hacked together from text files and decades-old Excel formats is complying with basic data protection principles, given that it's being used to process sensitive personal data and has profound implications for both public health and now (since violating an instruction from their people to self-isolate has just been made a criminal offence) individual liberty for huge numbers of people.