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Google and Apple teaming up to enforce tracking at the OS level, very clever indeed:

"The Verge: Apple and Google have a clever way of encouraging people to install contact-tracing apps for COVID-19." https://www.theverge.com/interface/2020/4/14/21219289/apple-...

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In fairness, the government somehow tracked the cell phones of numerous spring breakers. So, I mean, obviously they already have some ability to do the tracking without any changes by google or apple at all. This just makes that ability known to smart phone users.

They most likely did that through triangulation, which is too coarse for contact tracing.

But they actually did contact tracing for the spring breakers using whatever method they have now. So either they have another method, or triangulation was good enough for the contact tracing they wanted to do.

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