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If you have google maps installed on your phone and location turned on, every time you visit a restaurant you already get the message of "how did you like xyz,
by euix 6y ago
If you have google maps installed on your phone and location turned on, every time you visit a restaurant you already get the message of "how did you like xyz, please rate and help other visitors"
You are already living in a surveillance state. The difference is unlike in other places in the world you can complain and shout about it.
- sanxiyn 6y agoAnother difference is that you aren't using this data (which are collected anyway) to contain the epidemic. I can't figure out why.
- nomel 6y agoMy hopeful guess is that their APIs and policies make the data impossible to access in anything but an aggregated format.
- IX-103 6y agoIt has to be policy. If they only had aggregate data, they couldn't do the whole timeline thing. They did release some results on peoples' movement patterns during the pandemic "lockdown" (https://www.google.com/covid19/mobility/ https://www.google.com/covid19/mobility/).
- petre 6y agoThey don't have the X is infected part and the data is also aggregated.
- ocdtrekkie 6y agoAt least for now, I also have the choice to not have Google Maps on my phone and keep location disabled, which I do. So there's definitely room for things to get worse.
- bluedispatcher 6y agoJust because you chose to sacrifice your privacy for convenience doesn't mean it should become a baseline for what we expect. Especially nor for government services.
- StanislavPetrov 6y agoReason 5,431 why I carry a 3g flip phone (with the battery often removed).
- dehrmann 6y agoYou should start looking into LTE flip phones. There aren't many (the Alcatel Go Flip comes to mind), but carriers are starting to phase out 3g. E.g. AT&T is killing 3g in 2022.