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>These mobile network tracking datasets have been commercially available long beforehand. Hopefully not. Canada has fairly strict privacy legislation.
by upofadown 5y ago
>These mobile network tracking datasets have been commercially available long beforehand.
Hopefully not. Canada has fairly strict privacy legislation.
- gruez 5y agoMaybe the raw datasets aren't available, but another commenter has mentioned that they're willing to sell aggregated/anonymized data to anyone who's willing to pay: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29680578 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29680578
- akamaka 5y agoIt is in fact a Toronto company that invented the technique of tracking pandemics with cellphone data, after the 2003 SARS outbreak, and it is being used in a number of cities: https://thelogic.co/news/ai-firm-bluedot-helping-toronto-public-health-measure-residents-movement-in-bid-to-track-covid-19-risks/ https://thelogic.co/news/ai-firm-bluedot-helping-toronto-pub... https://www.smartcitiesdive.com/news/bluedot-coronavirus-privacy-chicago-cell-phone-data/576259/ https://www.smartcitiesdive.com/news/bluedot-coronavirus-pri... https://www.cbsnews.com/amp/news/coronavirus-outbreak-computer-algorithm-artificial-intelligence/ https://www.cbsnews.com/amp/news/coronavirus-outbreak-comput...