The only practical way to do this will be to make use of the existing, fully-deployed and very personally invasive surveillance infrastructure now sitting in your pocket (or under your cat)https://twitter.com/mlipsitch/status/1243351925229223937 …
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One approach worth considering is trying this kind of phone-based contact tracing on a state level, somewhere like California or Washington. People might have more faith in state than Federal authorities. I am completely flexible on implementation, as long as we agree to do it
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Does it need the cooperaton of those companies, or ditching privacy? can't people install an app consensually that records their location every few minutes? They can give up the location data themselves too. It could go ... viral.
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Doesn’t seem to be working in Israel just yet. Plus, people are leaving their phones at home when they leave home against the rules.
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Different country, different context. I don't know anything about Israel so I can't usefully opine.
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Tell me the plan for getting it through Congress
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Or do you do it without an act of Congress?
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Something to consider: what kind of resolution (both physical & time) would be needed to make this useable for contact tracing without staggeringly large false positive and negative rates in, say, San Francisco? 1/
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Next: do phones actually have that resolution right now? If not, what would need to change to make that feasible? 2/
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