> While most governments lean toward privacy-focused apps that use Bluetooth signals to create an anonymous profile of a person’s whereabouts, others, like Israel, use location and cell phone data to track the spread of the virus.
Doesn't look like that's what was found being attempted here.
This is why there is pretty much no trust in institutions anymore.
Apple and Google can talk about privacy all day, but there is way too much money and interest in de-anonymizing that data.