>Google and Apple need to get their act together though, and just provide a contact tracing framework as part of the OS that is compatible, and can have data ho

>Google and Apple need to get their act together though, and just provide a contact tracing framework as part of the OS that is compatible, and can have data housed in each country where they see fit. No. They already have their act together by providing only an API that cannot be abused by authoritarian regimes to do whatever, and keep stupid/badly advised politicians such as my own German government at bay. I hope they keep that line. The reason Germany switched the approach finally was the public pressure by a) having Google/Apple stay course and b) the German public - learning from journalists and other experts - that there in fact was a less privacy-invasive approach that according to many if not most epidemiologists wasn't any worse either for tracking the pandemic.