Something I haven't seen get enough attention in this debate—if a Federal effort is impossible, it can be attempted at the state level instead. California is basically a country and economy of its own, and they could institute location-based contact tracing by themselves.
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People hate tracking in the abstract, but this will not be an abstract choice. It may come down to "do we have 50% unemployment or just carry a phone around like we did before." I'm confident people will find it more attractive then.
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People who absolutely, positively hate the idea of location tracking, pay a visit to https://www.google.com/maps/timeline and tell me what you find!
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The only serious question about collecting phone location data is: can it help contain the virus at a level where we can have a functioning-ish economy? That's a question for epidemiologists and depends critically on the details of how the disease actually spreads.
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I really don't think the data's actually good enough; it doesn't have the resolution and it has too many gapshttps://twitter.com/delta_vee/status/1247724987454291968 …
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I don't see how it can really be effective without an app on your phone using Bluetooth to see who's actually within coughing distance. Cell tower data is just too coarse.
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