Forget aggregating it. Use the full individual data and put it in the hands of public health authorities.https://twitter.com/politico/status/1242447340507746304 …
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Our biggest challenge in containing the reemergence of the disease will be aggressive testing and contact tracking. Something like 80% of the US population carries an always-on tracking device with precise geolocation data. Tell me why we're not retooling this for the CDC to use
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Is there crypto nerdery that can make this less invasive from a privacy standpoint? Fan-fucking-tastic. Increase the nerdery! Put in dual overhead blockchains, whatever it takes. But even the most privacy-shredding version of this tracking system would be an absolute social good
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Seriously, what is the point of a corporate duopoly in mobile phone operating systems, and an entirely unregulated economy built on the most invasive forms of personal surveillance, if we can't use them to save lives in a pandemic?
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What we especially need is for tech people to outline to epidemiologists the full extent of the surveillance network *already deployed* commercially in the United States, and find out what parts of it will help their work. I and many other nerds are ready to help communicate that
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I have absolutely no idea what surveillance measures you need in order to fight the spread of a disease like this one. But I bet most of the epidemiology community doesn't fully understand the powers of modern surveillance capitalism, since they've been busy doing epidemiology.
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