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I might be in the minority, but I don’t care if it was used to make macoroni art. I also don’t care how harmless or good the CDC might be to someone. A governm

I might be in the minority, but I don’t care if it was used to make macoroni art. I also don’t care how harmless or good the CDC might be to someone. A government entity should not be a using tax payer money to purchase privacy sensitive data of citizens.

hypothesis 5y ago
> A government entity should not be a using tax payer money to purchase privacy sensitive data of citizens. Nothing nefarious going on here, right? It's not like they are bypassing constitution here and checking if one visited place of worship, are they? [0] https://mobile.twitter.com/timmarchman/status/1521477790813597702 https://mobile.twitter.com/timmarchman/status/15214777908135...
avs733 5y ago
they should only collect it themselves amiright? This was the least expensive and most responsible way to conduct this study. What alternative would you provide? Just not doing it?
- SV_BubbleTime 5y ago
  > Just not doing it? An interesting proposal.
monksy 5y ago
For anything other than a disease prevention and tracking agency (debatiable if the CDC follows into that.. insert Dr Glockenflocken video about that for reference) I agree with you. Enforcement agencies like the FBI shouldn't be getting that info to work with. With dieases similar to covid, measles, etc .. it's an invaluable tool to be able to determine how, and where infection occured. This allowed for some fantastic studies and finds in Korea. (I.e. https://jkms.org/DOIx.php?id=10.3346/jkms.2020.35.e415 https://jkms.org/DOIx.php?id=10.3346/jkms.2020.35.e415 would not have been possible without the phone data)