[dingaling]

> An abusive government can already subpoena or otherwise monitor all the network providers.

The advantage that this tracking proposal provides is that it unfurls contact tracing from one node. Until now, authorities have had to work from a large dataset ( all phones on a mast at a particular time ) inwards; now they can start with one node of interest and expand outwards.

Combined with some other 'temporary' pandemic measures, such as the legal requirement to carry your phone at all times, this provides a huge benefit to any authority.

[Reelin]

> such as the legal requirement to carry your phone at all times

In such a hypothetical scenario, how is making this (currently opt-in) framework mandatory any different from requiring you to install a government provided app? Such a government app could trivially log sensor and GPS data, yielding a _far_ more detailed view. The point is that the mere existence of this framework doesn't make the situation any worse than it already is.