Just saying, you want to play the role of dictator and just mandate that the government have access to my phone. In China, that is perfectly fine with the courts, in the US, I don't think so. The ACLU agrees.
It's not so much that I would not give my consent, it's that I want to know the data is shielded, protected and is gathered in a constitutionally acceptable manner.
Times of emergency require a different weighing of privacy considerations, but we should be closely scrutinizing any government attempts to exploit this crisis to grab additional surveillance powers.
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If location data is to be used, there must be strict policies ensuring that, whenever possible, the patient has consented to such uses; minimizing any data sharing; requiring deletion of the data when there is no longer a need to hold it; and, where it is anonymized, ensuring that no effort be made to re-identify it. If the government obtains any data, it must be fully transparent about what data it is acquiring, and from where, and how it is using that data. Any programs should come with clear sunsets to ensure they don’t outlive the effort against COVID-19.
It's not as if your false belief that lockdowns don't work matters one bit. We are going to be locked down for a while now and there is time to prepare a legally and personally acceptable way to collect the data. A process, a legal framework and selling the action to the public are all necessary to make this tracing system work. The way you frame the issue, I and many others will simply not cooperate.
