The possibility of “partial quarantine” in the early
stages of pandemics, where there is perhaps some residual uncertainty about
transmission that authorities don’t want to talk about, could give more impetus
to concerns about privacy from snooping.
For example, I might not want government to know what seat I had
occupied on a train (plane you can’t help), or in a movie theater if a health
department or even CDC got very aggressive with secondary contact tracing. Imagine not being allowed to return home
from a trip based on a train or plane seat assignment.
If something unusual happened in a venue, that would
be one thing. But I can’t afford to be
grounded on just a speculative whim.
Theoretically, the government could try to get the
information from email or text content – although we all know that it sometimes
does it without a warrant, or can get one too easily.
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