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I sure hope governments will be wise enough to not cooperate with Palantir, which is the embodiment of the worst excesses of surveillance capitalism. Managing the spread of the virus is a critical issue and if some surveillance of the population is required, it necessitates a lot of trust and transparency on part of the government. Working with Palantir would undermine that from the start.

In principle, I'd have been open voluntarily to installing such a privacy-preserving bluetooth contact tracing app (provided it's open source and auditable). But knowing that Palantir may or may not be involved in analyzing that data, I'll probably pass.



>> ... such a privacy-preserving bluetooth contact tracing app (provided it's open source and auditable

Hey, whip that for the the world, if you don't mind?

Queue the inevitable deluge of "it's not that big of a project, more than 5 Devs would be a shocking waste, etc." comments...


Fraunhofer is already field-testing an app based on that concept




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