Researchers are using Facebook's location data to provide daily updates to US cities and states evaluating the effectiveness of social distancing amid COVID-19
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@dseetharaman
Deepa Seetharaman
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good story that sheds light on how Facebook data is helping to cities / states amid the pandemic https://twitter.com/...
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@evanderburg
Eric Vanderburg
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Google Reveals Location Data to Help the Coronavirus Response http://i.securitythinkingcap.com/ RT78QT https://twitter.com/...
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@stanfordcis
Stanford Cis
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“This is a good example of where aggregate location data can be developed in a privacy sensitive way to provide actionable information to decision makers on the effectiveness of social distancing.” @agidari on @Google sharing location data. https://www.wired.com/...
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@doblezeta
Yves Gonzalez
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Google has released a new Community Mobility Report website where everyone can download country reports to see the impact of social distancing guidelines related to COVID-19 https://www.google.com/... https://twitter.com/...
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@josephmenn
Joseph Menn
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Location data, thus far sanitized for your protection, is beginning to flow from tech companies to public health authorities. Our story: https://www.reuters.com/...
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@agidari
Albert Gidari
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Another example of mobility data that public health experts find useful and that is provided in a privacy protective way. If anything comes out of this pandemic, it would be great to see tech companies, public health experts and civil liberty groups meet and confer. https://twitt…
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@simulacrandrew
Andrew Schroeder
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“With the virus already spread throughout the country, the research focuses on the success of measures designed to get people to stay home, as almost 40 U.S. states have ordered.” #Covid19 @DirectRelief https://www.reuters.com/...