The last bit taken from https://gizmodo.com/location-tracking-to-fight-coronavirus-is-dangerous-and-1842726733 …. The core philosophical disagreement here is the notion that there is some kind of blood/brain barrier between private sector surveillance and any state-run agency having access to the data. I think it's a specious distinction
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But okay, I surrender, do your privacy-preserving mixnets and reverse triple axel blockchain... but make Google and Acxiom do it, too, by force of law. Don't make the first object of actual data privacy regulation, after two decades of doing nothing, be pandemic response!
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The whole point of my original proposal on this is that we *badly need* regulation, but let's take advantage of the awful status quo to at least set up a way for the country to leave lockdown this summer on the strength of location-enabled contact tracing. https://idlewords.com/2020/03/we_need_a_massive_surveillance_program.htm …
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There's a "Whole Foods" feel to privacy activism, an airy unreality and parochialism, that is beginning to really get under my skin. My promise to those privacy activists is this: I will track you down, and I will find out who you are!
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And triple word score to anyone who is coming up with these great ideas for privacy-preserving epidemiology while working a day job at Facebook or Google.
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except... those conversations *are* happening, right now. there is absolutely no public/private divide at all in the US and plenty of existing private infrastructure, particularly w/ loc data, is (spuriously) being used to “manage” the virus.
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and most of them do not even consider privacy, because why would they? my big take-away is that if we can use this shock-doctrine moment to argue for solutions that build a more private future instead of a surveillance state, we should, full stop.
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I would argue that the bigger barrier to effective contact tracing and containment is the systemic defunding and lack of coordination of county health departments. We should try, but this problem cannot be solved without throwing tons of money and staff at big & local government
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