Epidemiologists are calling for the same thing I called for yesterday from the tech side: let's use the system of real-time population-wide location tracking we've deployed for something more important than selling advertising. https://idlewords.com/2020/03/we_need_a_massive_surveillance_program.htm …https://twitter.com/mlipsitch/status/1242469687834939392 …
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The idea that it's fine for Verizon and Facebook to know where you are at all times, but if the CDC finds out it will be the ruin of democracy, does not hold up to any kind of serious scrutiny. The CDC, unlike Facebook, does not sell political ads or make donations to Devin Nunes
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Note that I am asking for permission for a completely unregulated private surveillance industry to share data for a specific, urgent use with a highly regulated public health authority. The only reason we need permission is because the rules on the latter are too strict!
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Right now, the many companies who track the location of every American who carries an electronic device in real time can share that data with anyone they want to except the only people who need it—epidemiologists. That is absolutely bonkers. Fix it! And then regulate it better!
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The only way to get people back to work after this initial outbreak is contained will be an elaborate surveillance system so public health workers can get on top of outbreaks. Let's use the one we have in place right now. Happy to be called a fascist by very online for saying it.
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