"Everyone should know about your mobility": wow! Okay, I'm going to take a
ginger beer and to do some yoga. And think about a world in which
solidarity means tracking people.
Take care dear Brian,
Frédéric
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On Fri, Mar 20, 2020 at 3:16 AM
want to try another, simpler way to ask the question: Should I be
terrified to see my personal dot on a public coronamap? Or is there a
world in which individual freedoms cohere for a collective good?
Answering Frederic, I guess I am fatalistic about social change: far
as I can see, the
Dear Brian,
Would I be correct if I say that I see in the last paragraphs of your email
a form of fatalism! Not because you try to think - very well - the future,
but because of the alternative frame that you propose: either the defense
of the "autonomous individual" or the cybernetic
There is an interview in today's Corriere della Sera describing the
contact-tracing app that three Italian firms are developing for the
Department of Civil Protection:
Dear Felix,
I wonder if *focusing* on "mobile phone data to monitor public health
efforts" is not the best way to prepare, structure, what you call in your
email "the general state of emergency" - to technologically enable it to
last! Yes, "simply calling for the protection of personal privacy"
Felix Stalder writes:
> So, is there a possibility to use this data without it turning
> it into an authoritarian power grab? I think there is, under the
> following guidelines:
>
> - Data needs to be deleted after immediate purpose of the analysis
> has been achieved.
The thing is these data
On Wed, 18 Mar 2020 at 10:25, Felix Stalder wrote:
> A1, the largest mobile phone carrier, is providing data to public
> authorities in an effort to monitor these restrictions (contact
> tracing might come later).
>
What's your source on that? I'd love to read more about it
~ L
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Here in Austria, and in many other places as well, restrictions on
personal mobility are quite severe. At the moment, we are told to
stay at home, with exceptions only for a) going to work (where remote
work is not possible), b) shopping for necessities (food, medicines,
cigarettes, mobile
