as mentioned above, I think the headline really is a little misleading here... there was a ton of backlash against using a centralised system for this contact-t

as mentioned above, I think the headline really is a little misleading here... there was a ton of backlash against using a centralised system for this contact-tracing app from the opposition, privacy lobbies, the CCC, universities, researchers, programmers that worked on it, etc. and on top of all of that also from Apple (though I doubt they would've put up much of an opposition if the EU had pushed their own solution and forced apple to adopt it - can you imagine the backlash apple would've faced if they denied co-operation for such an app during a pandemic, _had_ that app been the popular app of choice in the EU? It wasn't, however). The way this is reported/seen in Germany is mostly that the government realised it would be difficult for an app to achieve wide-spread adoption without the support of privacy-advocates. For better or worse, those privacy concerns are usually taken fairly seriously!