Norway botched the contact tracing app completely, certainly politically and maybe technically. Centralized storage of GPS & bluetooth data and refusal to open

Norway botched the contact tracing app completely, certainly politically and maybe technically. Centralized storage of GPS & bluetooth data and refusal to open-source (which is a tacit acknowledgement of insufficient confidence in security -- of the personal movements of the whole population, no less). Statements from researchers involved in the technical development that citizens have a responsibility to give up their personal information. Poor debate and communication regarding the choice of centralized tracing. Then followed up with painfully weak statements from politicians and researchers that this is a truly exceptional one-time-only transgression of privacy, which will be rolled back permanently on a specified date and never be construed as precedence for similar actions in the future. FHI, responsible for the app deployment (the Norwegian version of the CDC), has previously betrayed the trust of the public by refusing to destroy DNA samples of exonerated suspects and witnesses. Skepticism towards their ethics and degree of principled data management is highly justified. Digital contract tracing seems dubious anyway, but thankfully we're in a position at the moment where it is definitely unnecessary. Might be relavant in a few months though.