2 different perspectives on contact tracing
It’s interesting - I, as you know, am generally relatively pro-privacy, anti-surveillance state. However, in context, I don’t understand why these tools are not being used more widely. In the sliding scale of individual rights versus communal good, in non-COVID outbreak circumstances, we know, from the NYT series on GPS datamarts, that linking cell GPS to individual user is already being done. But why, in a crisis is this not being used for the larger public benefit?
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Matthew I agree with you, entirely. When you get an answer to your question could you share it with us please.
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Siren (https://siren.io/), an Investigative Intelligence Platform, have recently adapted their suite of solutions to actively undertake contact tracing across the entire population to prevent the spread of coronavirus. Clients are already using Siren to implement contact tracing with location data, airline data, shipping data etc to target and isolate the right individuals.
They have posted a blog on the concept here:
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/how-technology-can-identify-coronavirus-outbreak-travel-mccracken/?trackingId=3WALU2lmRQ63GqHtJxQFiA%3D%3D
This video shows how Siren may be used in this way - https://youtu.be/zSUqnJhSRp4.
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A partial reply to the question about the use of mobile phone tracking in NZ during COVID-19 : the NZ police are using it to monitor quarantine compliance, but on a consented basis - apparently only half of the relevant cohort have agreed to using it. There has been a deafening silence about the use of the technology for other COIVD-19 related purposes.
https://i.stuff.co.nz/national/health/coronavirus/120766505/coronavirus-police-use-cellphone-location-data-to-track-quarantine-compliance
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Yep - as far as we would go is what was published on the weekend I think - ie. what are the gross movements of NZers to see potential flows.
Enforcement isn’t our job and mobile/GPS data doesn’t really help with whether someone coughed on you.
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