Deeply skeptical of this "privacy preserving" contact tracing approach by Apple and Google. My stance all along has been to hand over what we already collect to public health workers, while also regulating the space for the first time. This is the oppositehttps://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/10/technology/apple-google-coronavirus-contact-tracing.html …
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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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(Mostly I'm mad about my battery)
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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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