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 …
You limit it strictly in time and scope to a designated public health agency. It does not entail any expansion of power for the tech companies, who already collect all this data and use it for their lucrative private ends.
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I see tech companies learning to more closely collaborate with the federal government on surveillance as a very real potential problem.
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