[IAmEveryone]

The document is from 2007. It doesn’t talk about contact tracing because phones were still using rotary dials at the time. It does mention, for example, quarantines for family members and work colleagues, which is just contact tracing by another name.

Contact tracing, as currently implemented in iOS and Android, does not reveal location data to third parties. There are many widespread uses of location data that are far worse for privacy.

For contact tracing to be useful, you need to:

- believe in the germ theory of disease

- believe in the ability to trace contacts at any level than pure randomness

These requirements are so low, it makes contact tracing at least theoretically useful at a level close to a tautology.

I find your document quite interesting in that it seems to recommend a lot of measures that we are using now.