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

Brennan77 said

But again, that doesn't justify the explicit compulsion of requiring private businesses to collect and provide customer data in order for them to operate. It's way over the line, even if the intention is good. Most tyrannical oversteps are justified to the public by seemingly good intention.

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The only customer data that is being collected is the name, date and time that people have been at that company and contact information.

That data is held by the company for 21 days. Once that time period is up the data is no longer held by the company.

The only time the data is to be shared with the government is if it turns out that someone was infectious with COVID-19 at the time they were at the company. At that point the company provides the names and contact information of everyone else at that company at the same time that the infectious person was there. That information is then used to contact all of those people to let them know that they have been exposed to COVID-19.

We can't safely "re-open" the country without contact tracing, so this is necessary if we want to "re-open" the country safely.

How do you think this information can be used in a tyrannical and oppressive way against people?