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Wasn't there some news days ago about a cyclist being on the suspect list of a burglary because he was cycling on the street next to a house and the app he was
by fierarul 7y ago
Wasn't there some news days ago about a cyclist being on the suspect list of a burglary because he was cycling on the street next to a house and the app he was using was taking location data from Google?
US government could just order Google / Apple push an update to their OSes thereby making location data always on then gather the data and do contact tracing.
A lot of people would actually self-subscribe to a Google Contact Tracing app if they are instantly notified about crossing paths with an infected person.
- artificial 7y agoThey wouldn't even need to go that far. As long as the phone is talking to the tower its position is known. Perhaps a rise in mesh networks with non cellular devices will be a thing?
- kortilla 7y agoNot a very good position though (can be hundreds of feet off), so it depends on what you want to do with that data.
- Retric 7y agoFor a single data point it’s not that accurate but over time things change. How many people are within 500 feet of you for 4+ hours a day. In that mindset, building a model to track say every person on a tour bus seems rather straightforward. Even locating people likely to be having an affair seems doable if you have some basic biographic info on the general population.