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Public Health agencies (at least in the US) collecting data about residents is a thing. People just get a little touchy about government programs collecting al
by jasonjayr 2y ago
Public Health agencies (at least in the US) collecting data about residents is a thing. People just get a little touchy about government programs collecting all this data ...
- KennyBlanken 2y agoWhat? Public health agencies are "goverment programs." Also: corporations lobby against funding / legislation / regulation for public health data collection - and then tell conservative voters it's about "their privacy." Meanwhile, corporate America is selling literally every scrap of data it can to each other, LexisNexis, Palantir... It's not just other corporations buying up that commercially available data; it's intelligence agencies and law enforcement, too.
- jasonjayr 2y agoYes -- I wasn't implying that public health organzations != government. And I know that (at least they're supposed to) government collected data has strict policies on handling + processing it, where as commercially available data is more "loosy-goosey". (Which, government has learned they can also use with little more than a polite word)