Looks like the Trump administration is responding to dumb decisions and cynical cuts with pure exploitation:

After withdrawing from the World Health Organization and losing access to its global network that tracks and combats disease outbreaks, the U.S. is attempting to obtain the information necessary to address potential pandemics through a patchwork of deals with individual countries

Some important—if disheartening—observations from Marwick.

Well this is terrifying.

Contract tracing is good, but apps for it are scary. Ugh.

This report sounds terrifying. Even the Capitol rioters deserve some freedom from this kind of surveillance.

Accelerometer data can be used for invasive tracking, and Facebook seems to be doing so. This is truly scary stuff.

We need data to make decisions, but predictive analytics tend to give me the heebie jeebies.

Location data harvesting is scary stuff.

We ought to be talking more about biometric data.

Well played, The Onion. Well played.

This means we’re going to get some soon, right?

Gotta admit that I’d never thought about what we should do about algorithms trained on data that’s subject to a deletion request. Interesting article.

Cory Doctorow has THOUGHTS about data. I may use this in my data science class this semester.

Give me the confidence of a FB employee wringing hands about researchers’ allegedly “put[ting] people’s data or privacy at risk.”