Big Brother or necessary surveillance? You decide.
In an effort to assist in “unprecedented times,” Google (GOOG, GOOGL) is helping public health officials use its vast storage of data to track people’s movements due to the coronavirus pandemic.
The “mobility reports” go down to the county level
to see if locals are abiding by social-distancing measures, but will
use anonymized historical data, with a lag of two or three days.
Google is also reportedly exploring individual
location tracking with a White House task force, as well as running a
handful of testing sites in Northern California in a private-public
partnership with the government.
https://seekingalpha.com/news/3558091-google-offers-location-data-for-coronavirus-lockdowns
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