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I miss-spoke. I meant to say the rolling proximity identifier could be tracked and fingerprinted.

Furthermore, it's not the same as a phone's location implicating you in a crime. It's a persistent log of your in-person social network that can be reverse engineered every time you get arrested or go through customs at the airport.



The rolling proximity identifier is short-lived and put through a non reversible cryptographic hash function to prevent exactly that, same page. You're not going through airports in a pandemic, after which you can uninstall whatever app you're using in this crisis.




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