tl;dr Please trust these proven untrustworthy entities because they say it's good for you. I think the HN privacy concern is well placed. They are not advocati

tl;dr Please trust these proven untrustworthy entities because they say it's good for you. I think the HN privacy concern is well placed. They are not advocating covering our ears and screaming to ignore the pandemic, just that this phone-based contact-tracing plan has all the makes of a bad idea. It's the perfect way to shift the needle further towards acceptance of mass contact tracking. These institutions have all shown us if we give them an inch, they'll take a mile. Meanwhile, experts still say this is no substitute for proper, interview-based contact tracing, so it's almost a moot effort anyway. My most charitable interpretation is that Google and Apple are scrambling for SOMETHING to do with their respective holds on the mobile market, and this is something. It still doesn't mean it's a good idea.