Here we go: Apple and Google joining forces to track people’s movements in order to contain the epidemic

If I understand that correctly, they re going to roll this out quickly by first providing it as an app available for download called Contact Tracing, neatly enough. Then, in stage two, they re going to build it right into the iOS and Android operating systems while providing some sort of option to opt out. That ll deliver the software to three billion people or so. An obvious early question: How thorough will the opt out be, exactly? Given how much personal information is collected surreptitiously by tech companies already, it s impossible to believe that the movements of opt-outs won t be quietly tracked too. The opt out might prevent you from being alerted if someone you ve been in contact with is sick, but no one wants to opt out of that part. It s the movement tracking to which some will object. Is that realistically preventable once it s built into the OS? Is there any doubt that eventually the default setting on contact tracing will be to turn it on and force users to turn it off?

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