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This project may be necessary to enable fair elections in the United States and other democratic countries through November. On the other hand if built improper
by tmpz22 7y ago
This project may be necessary to enable fair elections in the United States and other democratic countries through November. On the other hand if built improperly it could usher in a 1984-style future with gerrymandering, vote-rigging, and huge increases in surveillance based government suppression. When the government is granted emergency powers it almost never gives them back.
Please do not fuck this up.
- rosywoozlechan 7y agoHow would this contact tracing technology help with vote-rigging?
- tmpz22 7y agoIf you can track the detailed movements of voters and connect that to party affiliation you would have complete visibility into meetings, social networks, and up-and-coming politicians, such that you can prioritize suppression efforts on those regions. Similar as a whole to gerrymandering, but imagine key political opponents being shut down "as the data shows a cluster of CV-19 may appear here at this exact date and time".
- dmarchand90 7y agoI feel like Facebook is basically already doing this?
- tmpz22 7y agoIt's mentioned elsewhere on this thread, but this project likely will take things further to more accurately measure the distance between individuals in small spaces in order to better track the contagion. This project may also have more liberal visualization tools, search tools, etc., geared for a task other then advertising. No doubt much of this data is already collected in one form or another. But it is a big step from collecting data, to analyzing it in new contexts, to visualizing it well, to making it highly accessible to federal non-technical agencies.