[sieabah]

Was this not apparent when every manufacturer was working on Covid tracking in the open? Were people really not aware of the technologies being employed? That technology now exists on every phone that has had any semblance of an update in the past two years. There is no privacy, you have always been and will always be completely trackable.

You can even use ultrasonic sound signatures so your phone doesn't even need to be broadcasting using bluetooth, wifi, or cell. Just the speaker alone at a pitch you cannot hear is enough to track you.

Edit: I enjoy how this gets downvoted for pointing out that technology has downsides...

[kalleboo]

You're being downvoted because this is a completely different technology from the covid tracking. For one thing, the covid tracking had to be explicitly installed and enabled, whereas this works passively.

[sieabah]

It wasn't optionally installed on any Android device, look through any recently updated Android for "Exposure Notifications".

So to your point of it being installed, it already is. Being enabled is whether we trust the governments involved with that switch.

[midislack]

Many nations enabled it without the consent of their citizenry.