The code had become law. To say this was an important decision is an understatement. Apple and Google helped enable tools to support contact tracing, but did so on their terms
Authoritarians everywhere sneak control under the cloak of a universal good. Contact tracking to slow COVID-19, image scanning to show CSAM. Who would ever quotation the goal? But questioning the method isn't questioning the goal, a distinction that authoritarians in government or in private organisations willingly blur.
