COVID-19 Outbreak (Update: More than 2.9M cases and 132,313 deaths in US)

B4YOU said

Y’all realize that businesses already do this. The groceries with loyalty cards track every item you purchase and tie that to your phone number. If there is a recall on a product, then they can contact you to inform you of the recall. In a public health emergency, no grocery is refusing to turnover contact info to the government.

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I think data collection on buying patterns and purchase history, I can live with, but idea of real-time location tracking is problematic and i think really blurs the lines of privacy laws. I don't care what people do on the streets or in their bedrooms as long as it's not a threat to public or safety. I understand contract tracing can help, but I think we're well past that, and won't be truly effective until the number of active cases is quite small.