Except that in this case Google are trying to produce a new contact tracing dataset rather than just giving the government access to the location data they alre

Except that in this case Google are trying to produce a new contact tracing dataset rather than just giving the government access to the location data they already have. Some ideas as to why: - lots of people have iPhones and Apple have made efforts to make them less trackable so maybe there isn’t enough data about enough people - google are scared that this would lead to their data collection/retention being more regulated - The location data google collect just isn’t granular enough - google don’t want to give the government access to their location data because they believe strongly that it should be private between google and the people being tracked/they’re scared that people will react badly as they begin to realise how much data google collects about them