I'm all for contact tracing, but that doesn't appear to be the core purpose of this app. It's about enforcing a social bubble through what is essentially house

I'm all for contact tracing, but that doesn't appear to be the core purpose of this app. It's about enforcing a social bubble through what is essentially house arrest. That's why the app is creating alerts about when a student goes off-campus: > In addition to having to install the app, students were told they are not allowed to leave campus for the duration of the semester without permission over fears that contact with the wider community might bring the virus back to campus. Tracking location isn't necessary to conduct contact tracing, as demonstrated by Canada's "COVID Alert" app: > The app is designed to notify users when they’ve been in close contact with someone who has tested positive for COVID-19. > However, it does not track a user’s location itself, or use GPS. > Instead, the app produces random codes, and uses Bluetooth to ping other users’ phones and exchange these codes whenever two people who have the app are physically near one another. > https://www.ctvnews.ca/health/coronavirus/canadian-privacy-watchdogs-support-covid-19-exposure-app-1.5049847 https://www.ctvnews.ca/health/coronavirus/canadian-privacy-w... So let's not conflate the issues here. This app doesn't exist primarily for "contact tracing"; if it were, they would not need to collect location data. This is about geofencing students.