The Failure of Digital Contact Tracing during COVID-19

So now we are ready to learn something, it seems to me. Epidemiologists and public health sociologists can ask what about the pathogen and the natural history of infection caused proximity-tracking technologies to be of limited use, or how the cultural styles of various societies contributed to the differences in uptake and outcome. But we can ask why the reliance of software technology was so over-grown, and why the platform companies were the primary exponents of privacy while simultaneously building dangerous social surveillance systems that proved to be of so little actual utility.