How is contact tracing supposed to work if the info given is fake?

[Igel]

8. There's contact tracing and there's contact tracing.

It's like "soda." There's bicarbonate of soda, baking soda, caustic soda, and diet soda.

S. Korea had contact tracing. They'd ask you who you were around. If you lied, you had criminal charges filed. To be tested for COVID, you first had to download an app that would monitor you going forward. They looked at phone records from before. They published the names of those infected and the names of likely contacts that they couldn't locate quickly.

Taiwan had contact tracing. Same business with phones and charges. And phone records. Who, where, when. But they also accessed your medical records for symptoms to see if maybe you needed testing. They'd contact those at your home address. Neighbors. They'd access tax records to see where you worked, assume you had been to work and test there, too.

Privacy? When somebody's life might be in danger, somebody's quibbling over privacy instead of social obligations?

It works better in places with a sense of civic duty. In the US, it'll be harder.

Many who insist that protesters have no right to assembly because of public safety issues--their rights kill people!--will suddenly find a much more substantial right to privacy in spite of public safety issues. And trouble'll be a-brewing if you say "your rights kill people!"