[qwerty123457]

??? I don't think anybody who catches the coronavirus wants to be anonymous. There is no social stigma.

The problem is exactly the reverse: infected people would gladly tell everybody exposed, but they can't reach them since the virus spreads so easily and the exposed could be delivery drivers, people in the grocery store, etc

[drno123]

Unfortunately in my country - Croatia - the social stigma exists. While we have a very good situation (total of 1500 cases on population of 4M, with 20 deaths), and we are geographicaly very close to Italy, there were multiple reports of patients’ families being harassed.

[sischoel]

In that case, the number of cases might be much higher, as people try to hide their sickness in order to protect themselves or their relatives.

[DennisP]

Well then it's good that this system doesn't tell you who tested positive.

[stjohnswarts]

This article isn't about covid, this is about the longer term prospects of having corporate-government cooperation in sharing data about your day to day activities, contacts, any other information on your phone and building infrastructure to make that even easier than it is now. AND it will be deeply buried into the operating system and not a simple app that can be uninstalled, it will become integral to it's operation and always on. They also seem to have no plans mentioned about ripping its hooks out after the covid emergency is over, or a 3rd party monitoring what they are up to or the source code being open for investigation for 3rd parties.