This is exactly the kind of situation where you want public health authorities to have cell phone location data, however coarse-grained it is, to create a list of possible contacts. Note that a bluetooth contact tracing app would be (even more) useless in this case https://twitter.com/samdolnick/status/1259491120188456963 …
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The kinds of questions we need to answer are not "did I come within an arbitrary distance of an infected person" with seven layers of cryptowank to make sure nobody learns each other's names, but "who was at or near this venue last Saturday, and how can we reach them?"
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That's exactly what I'm talking about, though. You create a list of potential contacts and then narrow it down with some combination of automated tools and regular, labor-intensive contact tracing work. The assumption that these systems have to be fully automated baffles me
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If you know there was a spreading event at location X, and you have some way to narrow down the list of people potentially exposed from "everybody in Seoul" to a list of 20,000 phone numbers, that strikes me as an extraordinarily valuable tool
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And the likelihood that there's no other data source that can help winnow that list strikes me as low
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You know that I'm going reply by pointing out we live in a democracy where cell data is used free of privacy concerns
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