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> I know someone in Germany and their covid tracking app tells you when and where you were close to someone who was last tested positive. So everyone does it the same way, recording location.

Not sure about Germany, but in France the app doesn't track location. It tracks nearby devices (with Bluetooth, rotating identifiers frequently), and when one marks oneself as positive, it informs the central server of the identifiers used in the last X days, which then other apps checks against their list of known identifiers that were close.

So there is no recording of location.



My friend was definitely told where he was on the last contact. Doesn't mean his location left the phone though.

[He didn't get Covid this time, but off topic for this discussion.]

Edit: or maybe it's on topic because the location was at some amusement park outdoors. Since he knew where and it was relatively safe, he didn't have to worry much about the test results...


No, definitely not. There is no location info anywhere in the app, and never has been.

Obviously you can enter "library visit" in your contact diary manually, but even then there is no location involved, it's just a string of characters.


There isn't even a specific point in time given, only the day.


I believe in android bluetooth requires some location permission, because it can be used to identify your location.




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