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> Mobilewalla does not collect the data itself, but rather buys it from a variety of sources, including advertisers, data brokers, and internet service providers.

So we can mobilise to use this data for profiling protestors, but not to help tackle a pandemic which is spreading concurrently?



This data has an accuracy of something like ~80ft on average.

https://www.mobilemarketer.com/ex/mobilemarketer/cms/news/re....


Ah, right - less than I thought. I suppose that could be useful for mass-gatherings but generally we should not have those anyway.

Thank you for the correction


They don't get the fine detailed data that is needed for contact tracing.


We cant we just dont care to.




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