Wrapping data you already take great pains to collect (here I'm talking about Google) in a privacy layer that deprives public health people of location history and an aggregate view of user movement (except the "anonymized" one you choose to share) is the height of arrogance.
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What this does highlight is the problem of governance. Deploying a new, nationwide contact-tracing technology should be something decided by a functioning Congress in consultation with a functioning CDC, not a fun crypto project for Chad and Brad in Cupertino and Mountain View.
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My main critique: you shouldn't bake in assumptions about how this virus spreads into an unauditable core OS feature. Talk to experts. Give them your already-collected raw data so they can return to if assumptions change, or we learn things that change our perspective
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They're doing mostly what you wanted! Don't get bogged down in the details. Apple and Google doing this at the OS level is the only way this can work. Up-front privacy assurances help increase adoption and don't necessarily limit relevant data collection.
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I called for full, nonconsensual, unmasked location-based tracking at the price of real regulation for this sector once the crisis passes.
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But... you get why it’s happening, right? The polite fiction of existing regulation benefits everyone involved. Whoever admits it first has to take the fall. Even if they all realize there’s an existential risk, it’s still not in anyone‘s self-interest to act _first_.
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The shared incentive is to delay. Meanwhile, a series of half-measures, seemingly hindered by nebulous privacy concerns, keep public pressure toward building capability and opposed to strengthening regulation. That works for everyone too
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What they’re doing is far more fine grained than occasional location data. It will basically do a scan 24/7 looking for other BT devices around it. The data will be way more detailed than any advertising data they have today
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