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That’s really quite hyperbolic, given that it’s the cell provider’s anonymized aggregate data, for sale to anyone who cares to pay.
by moistly 5y ago
That’s really quite hyperbolic, given that it’s the cell provider’s anonymized aggregate data, for sale to anyone who cares to pay.
- throwawayboise 5y agoMany states and nations built databases to track who is vaccinated, who is infected, and who their contacts are. They will not go away, and they can be used to track anything.
- jollybean 5y agoIf this were the case, it should be a very big story. But it's anonymoized data, they are looking at behavioural patterns. This is probably a really smart thing to do.
- gruez 5y ago>given that it’s the cell provider’s anonymized aggregate data, for sale to anyone who cares to pay. I heard that's the case for the US, but is that the case for canada as well?
- gpm 5y agoApparently, yes "The Insights platform was widely used even prior to the pandemic," [1] I found [1] from the telus site describing this at [2]. The data platform is [3]. They say that they aggregate the data into large buckets, but I haven't figured out exactly what that means. [1] https://iapp.org/news/a/teluss-data-for-good-wins-hpe-iapp-privacy-innovation-award/ https://iapp.org/news/a/teluss-data-for-good-wins-hpe-iapp-p... [2] https://www.telus.com/en/about/privacy/data-for-good https://www.telus.com/en/about/privacy/data-for-good [3] https://www.telus.com/en/business/medium-large/enterprise-solutions/big-data-analytics https://www.telus.com/en/business/medium-large/enterprise-so...
- rkagerer 5y agoThat's the problem. Agencies use this vague, meaningless language when what you really need to understand the implications and scrutinize them are the sordid technical details.