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On the privacy-conscientious use of mobile phone data (2018)
- gentleman11 7y agoThe trick to handling our data correctly is to first not collect it
- papeda 7y agoSure, that’s one point on the privacy-vs-utility spectrum. Is it the best one? Contact tracing to track the spread of coronavirus seems pretty high utility. If there’s a way to get a lot of that utility with a lot of (but not perfect) privacy, we should explore that, no?
- extro 7y agoAsking the user is ALWAYS possible before you tracks them.
- losttheplot 7y agoHistory demonstrates the problem that governments can not be trusted to protect private data once they collect it and they can not be trusted to relinquish any power to monitor citizens once they have it. A relevant chat on virus tracking apps: https://www.youtube.com/1hKwDdBQN04 https://www.youtube.com/1hKwDdBQN04 Paraphrasing: >In the case of a pandemic, any entity collecting private user tracking data, even if they distribute that data anonymously to alert a user that they have been in close contact with an infected person, can de-anonymise that data.