Google's COVID-19 "community mobility" surveillance reports

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Originally published at: https://boingboing.net/2020/04/03/googles-covid-19-community.html

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Interesting that there’s spikes which show more people going to work on possibly Fridays and Saturdays with corresponding drops in the residential graph. I looked through both CA and NY and it shows up everywhere in both. I wonder what these jobs are. There don’t seem to be matching blips in the other graphs or in the before-time.

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I think it’s wrong that Google even collects that data.

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You can now opt out of some of it.

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I think it is pretty terrible.

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Dammnt, I did think people around here were not taking this shit seriously and those numbers kinda suggest just that.

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I’ve been ordering grocery delivery and its busier on the weekend, so maybe its the instacart, shipt, ubereats, etc folks?

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Kinda creepy but cool at the same time.
It’s amazing what data can do.

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