CV and mad panic behaviour

[kruddler]

Census information, tracking of online activity, release (intended or otherwise) of health records, hold over all travel information, CC transactions, phone numbers ....

This intrusion is one step too far.  Regardless of the government in power.  Cede them nothing

Agree.

Even IF the government is 100% above board with their end (however unlikely that might be) the chance of hackers doing their thing should be enough to scare you off.

For the record, the app (supposedly) doesn't actually track where you are. It does NOT know your location (or at least that part is not working at present if it is supposed to) it just tracks who you have been in contact with.
So if someone you have been in contact with get the virus, theoretically the system can send a message to everyone that person has had contact with.....and send every person THOSE people have been in contact with a message too, etc.

Not a bad idea in theory, but you are opening yourself up to all sorts of pain and potentially giving up a lot of information (directly or indirectly) in the process.