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Re:Smartphone contact tracing has failed everywhere by usrusr on Saturday July 25, 2020 @11:13AM (#23949770)
"everyone can know whether you have been near them or not."

For a very broad definition of "you" and for an unconventionally small set called "everyone". If you are forced to quarantine, a lot of people will know about your infection anyways, completely without any convoluted mental gymnastics about theoretical deanonyzation possibilities. Epidemic control has always been a very low privacy endeavor and app-based tracing following the Google/Apple model doesn't change that the tiniest bit. In fact of it was fully deployed it could replace a lot of far more invasive tracing, causing a net increase in privacy.

Re:Smartphone contact tracing has failed everywhere by Lammy on Saturday July 25, 2020 @11:19AM (#23949821)
I wish I could believe some new form of surveillance would ever "replace a lot of far more invasive tracing" and not just increase the overall scope of collection. This type of BT-based "offline/historic" mass-snitching just gives privacy-conscious people another thing to have to hide from in addition to the cellular network itself.