Google and Apple partnership for Contact Tracing

I don’t know but I doubt it. It’s easier to enforce the usage of an application (e.g. by turning away those who don’t have it) than to take a handheld object away from someone. Unless there’s some weird limit on phone ownership (like your device must be registered to you and you can only register one phone at a time). But even then I suppose you could dual boot an Android port to get around that provided the government ID/contact tracing app doesn’t refuse to work without hardware support on the SoC.

Also, I found a better source for what apps are mandatory where, as well as how invasive each is. But it only focuses on apps chosen by national governments.

For those in “voluntary” countries I would be more concerned with businesses refusing to let you in without these apps. There is pressure to do that. Employers might be obliged to provide a phone if they mandate it (but that’s conjecture based on certain decisions I know were made for CMMC multi factor authentication requirements).

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