{"id":43119,"date":"2020-03-24T13:05:21","date_gmt":"2020-03-24T18:05:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=43119"},"modified":"2020-03-24T13:06:44","modified_gmt":"2020-03-24T18:06:44","slug":"wapo-tracking-coronavirus-by-our-smartphones","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=43119","title":{"rendered":"WaPo: Tracking coronavirus by our smartphones"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>WaPo: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/technology\/2020\/03\/24\/social-distancing-maps-cellphone-location\/\">Smartphone data reveal which Americans are social distancing (and not)<\/a> by Geoffrey A. Fowler (\u201cD.C. gets an &#8216;A&#8217; while Wyoming earns an &#8216;F&#8217; for following coronavirus stay-at-home advice, based on the locations of tens of millions of phones\u201d):<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>If you have a smartphone, you\u2019re probably contributing to a massive coronavirus surveillance system.<\/p><p>And it\u2019s revealing where Americans have \u2014 and haven\u2019t \u2014 been practicing social distancing.<\/p><p>On Tuesday, a company called Unacast that collects and analyzes phone GPS location data launched a \u201cSocial Distancing Scoreboard\u201d that grades, county by county, which residents are changing behavior at the urging of health officials. It uses the reduction in the total distance we travel as a rough index for whether we\u2019re staying put at home.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>WaPo: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/technology\/2020\/03\/17\/white-house-location-data-coronavirus\/\">U.S. government, tech industry discussing ways to use smartphone location data to combat coronavirus<\/a> by Tony Romm, Elizabeth Dwoskin and Craig Timberg <br \/><\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>The U.S. government is in active talks with Facebook, Google and a wide array of tech companies and health experts about how they can use location data gleaned from Americans\u2019 phones to combat the novel coronavirus, including tracking whether people are keeping one another at safe distances to stem the outbreak.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WaPo: Smartphone data reveal which Americans are social distancing (and not) by Geoffrey A. Fowler (\u201cD.C. gets an &#8216;A&#8217; while Wyoming earns an &#8216;F&#8217; for following coronavirus stay-at-home advice, based on the locations of tens of millions of phones\u201d):<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[76],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43119","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-surveillance-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43119","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=43119"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43119\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43122,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43119\/revisions\/43122"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=43119"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=43119"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=43119"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}