The app is inaccessible to many older and marginalized Canadians.
“On the technical end, the developers deserve to be congratulated,” he said. “This is a failure of policy. The government should have seen this, I hope someone has, they should have predicted it, I hope someone has, and they should have done something to try and start fixing it.”For a contact tracing app to properly work, he said, it requires 65 to 80 per cent of all Canadians to use it. The current version of the app makes that impossible.
The worst affected by are Black, Indigenous, people of colour, people who often have a lower socio-economic bracket. Who’s not going to be able to install the application? That same group ... that’s a problem.It did not address a question about a potential timeline for the issue to be fixed. So.... my 70+ parents tried to download the much lauded COVID app & found it only works on phones with iOS 13.5.1 or newer.
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