text_1: COVID-19 contact-tracing apps like Healthy Together and ABTraceTogether are tracking you and also the people in your phone contacts and Facebook friends lists.
text_2: What's true: Different mobile applications are using Bluetooth and/or GPS technology to trace various users' locations (on a voluntary basis) to inform public health workers about transmission zones and contact patterns. What's false: However, these applications don't have access to contact numbers stored on your phone, unless you voluntarily provide them, or to your Facebook friends list. Only voluntary app users' locations can be tracked; the locations of people in their contacts list who have not installed the app cannot be tracked. What's undetermined: Many of these applications are in the early stages of testing, and their effectiveness is still being determined, as well as their overall impact on data privacy.