You clearly don't understand how the system works, there is no data related to location involved.

You clearly don’t understand my point. It becomes location data as soon as it’s triggered.

It doesn’t. I don’t know what to tell you. You should go back and re-read how it works.

Sure, let’s see: https://www.blog.google/documents/57/Overview_of_COVID-19_Co...

Right away I notice the glaring omission of “the surveillance state” in the wording of certain sentences like “People who test positive are not identified to other users, Google or Apple“.

“With Bob’s consent, his phone uploads the last 14 days of keys for his broadcast beacons to the cloud”, also giving away his geolocation in the process. My read of the “doesn’t collect location data” is “doesn’t explicitly collect location data”, like just because it doesn’t send a field ‘geolocation’ they can technically say that and not be lying. You should check out one of my very favorite blog posts of all time: https://kieranhealy.org/blog/archives/2013/06/09/using-metad...

This is literally an open specification. There is no geolocation involved here. You're talking out of your ass. Don't you think if geolocation was tracked people would have kicked up about this? It collects randomised Bluetooth IDs, that is it.

It’s impossible to know what metadata is stored, so I have to assume all of it is. Really weird how many people in this community are willing to defend surveillance now. As a former NSA director said, they want to “collect it all”. Why would this be any different? The crux of the NSA story in one phrase: 'collect it all' | Glenn Greenwald | The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/jul/15/crux-n...

Posting bullshit from 2013 is not going to help you here.