This is amazing. And it's a reminder that there are probably some untapped ways to use technology to illuminate the dynamics of the pandemic and address it.https://twitter.com/KevinCate/status/1243295330398953473 …
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Replying to @robertwrighter
The use of cell phones in this way obviously raises privacy concerns, but yes they can help track spread (and have been used in that way in South korea).
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Replying to @HeerJeet
Actually, this data was anonymized. But there are proposals to use cell phones in, e.g., tracking past contacts of virus carriers that would raise privacy issues. Post-shutdown these issues may come to the fore.
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Replying to @robertwrighter
Right -- medical necessity might force us to change the parameters of privacy. That's worrying but hard to see an alternative if we want to really contain this without a long lockdown.
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Replying to @HeerJeet
Yeah, I've got a feeling we're going to see a new receptivity to Orwellian scenarios. The good news is that a pandemic is ultimately transient, so the rationale will eventually evaporate. The war on terror, otoh, goes on forever.
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Right -- the battle has to be to make sure the innovations in looser privacy policy are tied in law to this one crisis and not normalized.
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