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Google literally did this during the pandemic

https://www.google.com/covid19/mobility/

So did apple:

https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2020/04/apple-makes-mobility-...

Only… they gave that information to government (supposedly post-analysis and anonymized). Regardless the data was quite literally used to “track and trace” then as a mechanism / justification to place you under house arrest.



Ehh, there was some really sketch things there. I think at least for apple they might have potentially already built it and this just moved their announcement date up. There’s a very weird simultaneously timed NSA bill in congress at the same time.

/tinfoilhat




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