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This is a high-risk investment and you should not expect to be protected if something goes wrong. In early March of this year, or about a million years ago in pandemic time, we did an episode about

about surveillance and coronavirus. At the time, that meant turning our

gaze to China, where the government was using citizen's cell phone location data

to manage the pandemic. The idea that the US would use the surveillance technology to fight coronavirus

wasn't something most people had considered. Casey Newton is the Silicon Valley

editor at the verge and he says that changed really fast.

Like nothing should move that fast.

First, news broke the the CDC and some state governments were using location data

to see if the public was complying with social distancing measures.

And then just a few days later, Google announced that it was going to be using some anonymized

aggregated data of its own and start putting up reports about how people were complying with those orders.

Were you surprised by how quickly things changed?

Yeah, I'm always surprised when I write a column saying the government should do something

and then it does it two days later.

At this very moment, the US government

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