It all becomes clear when you realize many tech journalists are really anti-tech journalists.https://twitter.com/mmasnick/status/1261677799925968896 …
The cluelessness is even stronger than the animosity. If they had a clue, they'd realize that Apple and Google are already sitting on vast location databases, and would be attacking them for not sharing those for health purposes.
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They'd be saying that police already have access (under warrant) to those databases, and that similar database queries should be allowed for exposure tracking.
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And they'd be making insinuations such as that the announced Apple-Google initiative is only a fig leaf to hide those vast databases and protect them so that they can continue to be used for the really important purpose: advertising.
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