| Andreas Broeckmann on Thu, 26 Mar 2020 15:32:15 +0100 (CET) |
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| Re: <nettime> Il Manifesto: Let's get the network data |
in germany, the minister for health yesterday had to withdraw a law proposal that would have gone in this direction, in the face of strong protests, incl. from the ministry of justice.
i wonder what the options for technical solutions might be that could be more acceptable for people concerned about data protection and civil rights. (to me, the italian appeal to the benevolence of the GAFA seems all too naive, though understandable in the desperate situation in italy.) would it perhaps even be possible to think forward, to consider improvements to the technical systems that would give smartphone users (are we talking about anybody else?) a greater level of control about their data profiles, at least in the long run? or other real advantages?
just speculating... -a Am 26.03.20 um 11:28 schrieb William Waites: > > Marcel Salathé: I fear we will need stronger measures > > Interview by Sylvie Logean for Le Temps> Original: https://www.letemps.ch/sciences/marcel-salathe-crains-ne-devions-aller-vers-mesures-plus-strictes
> Translation by William Waites > 2020/03/25 <snip>> Marcel Salathé:> The only way to manage this health crisis, in the absence of treatments
> and while we wait for an effective and safe vaccine - which we know we > won't have before 9-18 months - is to attack the problem as the Asian > countries have done: with large-scale testing, isolating the sick, and > tracing people who have been in contact with infected people and > isolating them in turn if necessary. This strategy, recommended by the > World Health Organisation and which we could accomplish in Switzerland > while protecting personal data, has the immense advantage of enabling a > rapid and active extinction of local outbreaks, while avoiding strict > confinement for a long period of time. <snip> Am 26.03.20 um 09:59 schrieb nettime's avid reader:
EDITORIAL Let's get the network data EDITION OF THE 03/25/2020 POSTED 24.3.2020, 19:12 We are a group of journalists who want to join the country's effort against contagion.
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But as information workers we know that all of this will be a dead letter if we don't have the data to power these tools. Without data we die. Government and European institutions must ask those who have these data to make them available to health and administrative authorities to limit the damage. The great service providers: Google, Facebook, Amazon, Twitter, know a lot, if not everything, about social relationships, mobility, the mood, the physical conditions, of millions and millions of Italians, we talk about those Italians of more dynamic and competitive areas, living on the net, constantly talking to the net. We need to know what happened in February, how it is possible that the volcano exploded in Italy, and above all we must now enclose the contagion areas, identifying the most dangerous groups precisely in the passage from north to south of the wave of the coronavirus. Only the databases of these profiling powers would allow us to hopefully fight this war. As the European Commission claims, it is not a question of expropriating anyone. We ask these large corporations for collaboration, we want institutions to get attention for concrete cooperation. We would like the government to get positive answers from those who are partners in the public administration, from companies that are collecting invaluable masses of data for the movement of a large part of the population on their e learning and smart working platforms. We have read that Mark Zuckerberg fears a collapse of his servers due to the excess of users by quarantined citizens. Then he too should bring these people out of the house by shortening the time of isolation, help governments to georeference the real areas of transmission of the virus. A platform that gathers almost half of the earth's population is in itself a common good, a universal service. Let these great technological brands gain the honor of being an essential part of our lives by using the virality of the network against the virality of the disease. They know a lot, if not all. They know where, how and when the contagion opportunities have arisen, the rush of the virus has accelerated. Can all this be made available to the country right away? Owners of these platforms can elaborate, trace calculate the crisis points, developing graphs that make us understand in Lazio or Campania or Sicily what is about to happen. Let them independently give us the results of this elaboration. We don't want to get our hands in their drawers. Let the owners of these drawers make us win this battle, to save victims, to limit suffering, to save their users. We know it can. We know they can.
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