For years, @Google used flutrends as a justification for their retention policies for search arguing that the social benefit from 'big data' offsets the privacy invasions.
Which was later mostly disproved...
As the pandemic gets worse, we're going to see increased pressure by all governments to access #private consumer data to identify:
1) who is infected \
2) who they've been in contact with ("contact tracing")This is going to be an incredibly slippery slope if we're not careful.
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1240320586535931906.html
#covid19 #coronavirus #privacy #Google #surveillanceCapitalis #surveillanceState
