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Already happening in Austria: (link in German) https://futurezone.at/netzpolitik/ausgangsbeschraenkung-a1-liefert-bewegungsprofile-an-regierung/400783565 https:

• lorenzhs 7y ago
  That sounds rather like the traffic feature of Google/Apple Maps than what's discussed in the comments here. The article you linked is very clear that it's aggregated and only segments with at least 20 people on them are reported. If I understand the Hill article correctly, the US discussion is about the same kind of data ('An unnamed OSTP official told The Washington Post that they were “encouraged by American technology companies looking to leverage, aggregate, anonymized data to glean key insights for COVID-19 modeling efforts.”'), yet the majority of the comments seem to be assuming that it's about tracking individuals' locations to enable contact tracing. I don't get that impression from the Hill article at all. What's actually being proposed, while not unproblematic, sounds rather more palatable than the authoritarian nightmare that's being discussed here.
• tastroder 7y ago
  Germany as well now https://www.tagesspiegel.de/wissen/wie-breitet-sich-das-coronavirus-aus-rki-bekommt-handydaten-von-deutscher-telekom/25655144.html https://www.tagesspiegel.de/wissen/wie-breitet-sich-das-coro...