[ryukafalz]

Honestly, as both a free software and privacy advocate... yeah. If contact tracing significantly improves our ability to eliminate the epidemic, and my current understanding is that it does, this seems like a pretty good implementation. So long as the data collection is explicitly voluntary, I'm asked for my permission first, and it's for an important cause like this one... I really don't mind!

I would much rather have a system like this than to be indiscriminately tracked and lose more privacy potentially indefinitely. The tracking can't be indefinite if I'm asked for permission, because if I don't think there's good reason for it I'll just say no. And if I'm worried the app's privacy measures aren't good enough and it'll be abused, I'll just uninstall it.

Consent is the key!