If you are concerned about this, the app is the least of your worries because BLE and MAC addresses are already being used to track your movements, for commercial purposes. For example inside stores.
Additionally, many many apps silently gather and sell this data, without your knowledge, and with "consent" being ignored or being relegated to privacy statements that are too vague to understand that they are doing this.
I really hope that if people are concerned at all in any way about the tracking app mentioned here that they also learn that such tracking is being used extensively in industry right now.
I'm surprised how few people on HN seem to know this. If any audience should know and warn our friends and neighbors, it's the audience at HN.
So we get the reverse of the reasonable behavior. People - and I mean tech people, not Joes and Janes Random - freak out over using movement tracking to fight a pandemic, while they willingly accept the same tech being used by advertisers.
Additionally, many many apps silently gather and sell this data, without your knowledge, and with "consent" being ignored or being relegated to privacy statements that are too vague to understand that they are doing this.
I really hope that if people are concerned at all in any way about the tracking app mentioned here that they also learn that such tracking is being used extensively in industry right now.
I'm surprised how few people on HN seem to know this. If any audience should know and warn our friends and neighbors, it's the audience at HN.