As a data scientist, I am oriented towards mining data for valid insights that allow us to answer important questions, such as

* "Who was in close proximity (~15m) of this known COVID superspreader event?" or * "Who has spent a large amount of time in this region where the rate of cancer is 6 standard deviations above the statewide rate?"

So yeah, I'm firmly asserting location data enables us to explore a lot of important problems that negatively impact people's health, and I think learning from the past (ie from data) is how we improve the future.