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> The police already can (and do!) demand cell location data from carriers to investigate crimes. Ad companies collect data from apps you use to build targeting
by dleslie 7y ago
> The police already can (and do!) demand cell location data from carriers to investigate crimes. Ad companies collect data from apps you use to build targeting profiles.
Engaging in an act doesn't make it ethical to do.
> No more so than Apple/Google can be ordered to install something on your phone already.
That depends on your country of origin.
- eli 7y agoMy point was that the government already has the ability to get location data when they want it and this contract tracing proposal doesn’t make it any easier for them. (Whether or not they should be able to do what they’re already doing is a worthy debate but unrelated to contact tracing.)
- dleslie 7y agoEvery additional data source makes it easier to collect the data; the vigilance needed to monitor access to one source is hard enough, but it scales poorly with additional sources. It's why we tolerate so much incursion into our privacy: the effort necessary to operate anywhere near "normal" and maintain data privacy is almost insurmountably difficult.