The reason I think @pinboard's proposal is worth thinking through is that it's already happening, more or less, and it will happen whether we think it through nor not. I'd rather we did.
Trackers are already giving COVID as a reason to track.https://twitter.com/MikaelThalen/status/1243281598037913600 …
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I realize that was poorly written and pretty vague about what "this" and "work" mean. I was thinking "repurposing the surveillance apparatus without making the abuses even worse."
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I think that surveillance is horrible, that test & trace seems likely to be the most important thing we can work towards before a vaccine comes out, and that it will take a lot of work to make the tracing part non-horrible so we should start now instead of avoiding the issue.
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