I can’t wrap my head around this kind of hate towards the Apple/Google contact tracing. If Apple or Google wanted to track your location they would just do it using the GPS on your phone. Short of getting rid of your phone there would be nothing you could do to stop it. If they wanted to allow specific apps to track your location they would just give those apps access to your location in the background.

It seems like the governments, that you seem to trust, would much rather take that much simpler approach. Instead we have these two companies building a system that is more restrictive than location services in every way.

If you own a phone you are already trusting Apple, Google, or both. Let’s not pretend otherwise. The contact tracing system just means you don’t also need to trust the government or what ever entity is building contact tracing apps.