Contact tracing is a necessary element of the public health response to COVID-19. Privacy experts are rightly vigilant, but they need to take care not to undermine public trust in the programs that are taking care to do it right. https://www.wired.com/story/apple-google-covid-19-contact-tracing-interface/

Programs that aren’t technology-dependent cannot scale for a population level pandemic. So if you’re recommending artisanal programs staffed only by human contact tracers as a realistic alternative, you’re mistaking COVID-19 for a bad measles outbreak.

This seems like a good tweet to add to this thread: https://twitter.com/HNissenbaum/status/1260649364407545856