Metafilter picked up my thing about retooling existing location tracking into a tool for the CDC. I have to say the caliber of the discussion is pretty disappointing.https://www.metafilter.com/186216/Idlewords-What-we-need-is-a-massive-surveillance-program …
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The threat to our freedom from pervasive surveillance comes from a culture of totalizing data collection, run by unregulated private industry, in the service of corporate capitalism. My proposal is to dismantle that architecture, while using its cooling corpse to fight a pandemic
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A lot of the privacy zealotry is its own weird form of vanity. Nobody in the secret Pentagon sub-basement cares whether you sat all day in the armchair or on the sofa, posting those killer memes.
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Argument I totally respect: universal location tracking threatens our freedom as a people. We must not trade that for safety Argument I respect not so much: universal location tracking is fine as long as it's being used to target Buttigieg ads or entice me to eat at Red Lobster
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