"Slippery Slope" is a logical fallacy. It's right there alongside "appeal to authority" and "confirmation bias", to name two examples people somehow tend to rem

"Slippery Slope" is a logical fallacy. It's right there alongside "appeal to authority" and "confirmation bias", to name two examples people somehow tend to remember far easier. It's a fallacy because it applies to everything: "Now, they're just requiring cars to emit less CO2[0]. Next, they'll prohibit breathing!" This program goes out of its way to achieve provable anonymity. That is, in fact, the only reason Google and Apple are needs to implement this. Google Maps has actual location data, with similar precision at least in cities. That data has been there for sliding/skating governments to grab for years now. It's on servers, where it's easier to get to than data on your phone, legally. And location data is far more valuable than "X and Y came within 5 minutes at least once in the three days beginning April 15th". If all that doesn't convince, rest assured it will convince the public. As would anything, really, because they already see this pretty clearly. With that in mind, consider that going to the barricades for privacy now means certain failure on this issue, and possibly lasting repetitional damage for the cause. [0]: One wishes...