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Sorry to burst your bubble but governments have had access to this data for decades via their data siphoning agreements with telcos. I used to work at a telco
by threeseed 7y ago
Sorry to burst your bubble but governments have had access to this data for decades via their data siphoning agreements with telcos.
I used to work at a telco and we absolutely knew your location based off base station triangulation. And we knew who you called and messaged and who was nearby to you.
- aembleton 7y agoWhy isn't this data used then for contact tracing?
- rrdharan 7y agoThe whole point of GACT is to prevent governments from going that route. i.e. most folks in favor of GACT adoption see the alternative path, of using actual location data without opt in and operated by the government, as a scarier erosion of privacy.
- fourthark 7y agoTower triangulation doesn’t have very much precision, for one thing.
- pinkfoot 7y agoIt is. Extensively.