>
> Gotcha. Reading that proposal it appears to be a proposal for a
> methodology that will enable future proposals; where are the future
> proposals?


Well, so the geo cube has to guess a bit at who would find it useful in the
future.


> It also says "in many countries, disease monitoring must be
> carried out at the state or metro-area level" - which countries have
> to be metro-level? Who are we risking the entire reader population
> for, here? Is it one country, or ten, or?
>
> For what it's worth I love the idea of this kind of live stream. But I
> want to make sure that how the various chunks are being prioritised,
> and how critical they are to the outside world, is correlated - and is
> correlated with the underlying data's sensitivity, at that. If we're
> introducing risks by going down to city level and the actual use cases
> for city level data are limited, let's not do that - but this proposal
> doesn't provide thoughts on how limited those use cases are. It just
> says that it's required in some countries.


I agree with you, but I'm not sure the data is risky if it's k-anonymous.
Most likely, just doing that will limit the countries for which metro level
data is available.
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