The professional privacy crowd is being intentionally obtuse about the possible uses of location data in epidemiological tracking, as demonstrated in this white paper. Thread:https://twitter.com/granick/status/1247983480572534790 …
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A final point needs emphasis. The debate isn't how we use these technologies right now. There is no point to doing that until we've reached a state like Taiwan or South Korea, where it's back to tracking individual cases, and want to reopen the economy and resume normalish life
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The upshot is this: for the first time in human history, we have a working, automated real-time and retroactive location tracking tool for something like 80% of the US population. Do we make it part of our pandemic response, or strictly limit it to data brokers and advertisers?
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Agree that technically this is probably possible - but once a system is set up that involuntarily allows pinpointing users near-exact locations and who they've come into contact with, there's no chance agencies such as the NSA won't abuse it after the crisis is over
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This argument comes up again and again, but it's incoherent. The NSA either acts within the law, or it doesn't. A. If it obeys the law, it won't abuse this data B. If it doesn't obey the law, it already *has* all this data, from the many private sector parties who collect it
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