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This is not an excellent he just of the data. And the ways that cdc want to use it is proof the data shouldn't exist. I don't have a problem with the CDC creati

This is not an excellent he just of the data. And the ways that cdc want to use it is proof the data shouldn't exist. I don't have a problem with the CDC creating an app to collect such data. An app the clearly says what it is used for. But to collect the data through some other so and decide if someone broke curfew or visited a neighbor? You think that is ok? Pretty much the definition of Big Brother

sfink 4y ago
If they can identify individual people breaking curfew, then yes that's way out of line. If they can estimate the percentage of people breaking curfew within an entire large city, that seems like important policy input. And there's a huge gray area in between. In actual fact, I'm not entirely comfortable with the "large city" granularity either. I don't want a city that is majority black to be treated differently using the excuse of their aggregated health data, for instance. I think these types of data collections need to be treated very seriously, requiring justification for specific uses, tracking where it lives and enforcing penalties when it shows up elsewhere. Because these data are going to be out there and used. If they aren't managed responsibly, they'll be sold on the black market and used in completely uncontrolled ways.