Top 5 #LocationData Tweets

Welcome to the HODLCast BITBONICS! Today is March 26, 2020 and today’s twitter search was about “Location Data”.

Here are the top 5 tweets!

Number 5, from @JuliaAngwin

I’m hearing more and more cries for us to use anonymous cellphone data for disease surveillance. But research shows that anonymous data is usually not very anonymous. @atsaraharrison reports: When Is Anonymous Not Really Anonymous?-By The Markup.

Number 4, from @robertlufkinmd

MIT privacy experts launched a free app that tells you if you’ve crossed paths with a #COVID19 patient—without sacrificing your privacy. @Safepaths imports location data and timestamps from a user’s Google Account. [i have no affiliation/endorsement] safepaths.mit.edu

@rzanardelli: A team of experts coordinated by MIT has made available an app that combines tracing and #privacy: safepaths.mit.edu It can also be used in Italy and it can import data from Google Maps. cc: @InnovationGov @carloalberto @WRicciardi

Number 3, from @TwainsMustache

This is pretty cool. Compares social distancing over time using cell phone location data

Number 2, from @Alk20191

Correct ! And for the moment, except in some countries, we can still “pretend” we think that location data are aggregated. Soon, data will soon be officially individualized. And the brainless lambs will cheer on this and ask for more.

And number 1, from @matt_odell

The data isn’t anonymized, it’s “anonymized.” There is no such thing as anonymized location data. They can see where you live and where you work.