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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In particular, the people who think it's naive to trust the government to respect any law that limits this data to public health authorities are being incoherent. If you believe the government ignores the law, then they already have all the live tracking data they want, today.
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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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I take no issue with this position, but my one concern is that it exists uncomfortably adjacent to “if you have nothing to hide, you have nothing to worry about.”
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It does! The government has no business knowing where you sit. My gripe here is really that people are not thinking through the machinery of this stuff in the real world, or the way governments, states and corporate interests really work
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