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• tengbretson 7y ago
  > But for the moment, we are united by fear and have some latitude to act. We're literally still fighting the wars that arose out of the last time we acted in a moment where we were "united by fear."
  • 34679 7y ago
    And living with the erosion of Constitutional protections that seem all too easy to push through in times like these, but impossible to roll back afterward.
    • Mirioron 7y ago
      And this is why it's done during a crisis: it works. All the education and talk about how the last time the government overstepped their bounds goes out the window the moment a crisis hits. Then it's all about "why isn't the government doing more?"
• dan-robertson 7y ago
  Except that in this case Google are trying to produce a new contact tracing dataset rather than just giving the government access to the location data they already have. Some ideas as to why: - lots of people have iPhones and Apple have made efforts to make them less trackable so maybe there isn’t enough data about enough people - google are scared that this would lead to their data collection/retention being more regulated - The location data google collect just isn’t granular enough - google don’t want to give the government access to their location data because they believe strongly that it should be private between google and the people being tracked/they’re scared that people will react badly as they begin to realise how much data google collects about them