Have really enjoyed the work of NYT’s @PrivacyProject in pushing for greater #privacy protections (in the US). But by using people’s mobile data, albeit supposedly anonymized, to show spread of #coronavirus, NYT is exactly leaving by that credo, imho https://nyti.ms/34fmHqV 
Where America Didn’t Stay Home Even as the Virus Spread

People in Florida and elsewhere continued to travel widely last week, potentially exposing more people to the coronavirus, phone data shows.

https://nyti.ms/34fmHqV
Reminder: anonymized mobile data isn’t really anonymized https://go.nature.com/2Jpqnws 
Estimating the success of re-identifications in incomplete datasets us

Anonymization has been the main means of addressing privacy concerns in sharing medical and socio-demographic data. Here, the authors estimate the likelihood that a specific person can be re-identi...

https://go.nature.com/2Jpqnws
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