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So, I had to take a course from John Hopkin's University on Covid-19 at work. Aspects of my job include working with HR in contacting potential Covid cases and dealing with employees who have been exposed. Course is 6 hours long and about 50% of it is about the virus, how it is spread, rates of infection, etc. The other half is about how to do contact tracing and privacy concerns. Much language about how sure, people have rights, but because it's for the greater good of society, they can be ignored.
Then the section started about how some countries and have detailed GPS tracking information on their citizens through their smart phones and how great that is for containing the virus. They said our own government doesn't have such a system in place (oh, I bet they most certainly do...) but then go on to say that they will discuss how these systems work since we will likely have such a system in the near future.
Here is the transcript of parts of the lecture...
So, while the US doesn't currently have such a wonderful way of keeping track of it's citizens, they are currently working on it...
Then the section started about how some countries and have detailed GPS tracking information on their citizens through their smart phones and how great that is for containing the virus. They said our own government doesn't have such a system in place (oh, I bet they most certainly do...) but then go on to say that they will discuss how these systems work since we will likely have such a system in the near future.
Here is the transcript of parts of the lecture...
So, while the US doesn't currently have such a wonderful way of keeping track of it's citizens, they are currently working on it...