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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We're not at the stage where we can use such a tracking system in the United States. But we absolutely should be building it out right now, for when the initial wave has passed and we can move to Taiwan-style measures. We need Apple and Google at the forefront of this, right away
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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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Instead of demanding that the Trump administration implement universal tracking of every individual and their contacts, maybe you should first find out what surveillance measures epidemiologists actually need? Or just keep talking out of your ass about nerd power. Either way.
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Why are you mischaracterizing the thing I am calling for? I'm pretty sure we can find plenty to disagree on without the caricatures.
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The feds aren’t testing, quarantining, shutting everything down—the things we know work. But you wanna give them ubiquitous individual tracking. Even though you admit you have absolutely no idea what tracking measures are actually needed. Do I have that right?
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You are correct. I want to lay before epidemiologists the full extent of what data is being collected by the private sector right now, and let them pick what they will need to control the pandemic once this initial wave has been squashed by the radical measures now in effect
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