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The company initially considered using other metrics for their dashboard, but found that distance traveled correlated well with the number of confirmed cases and captures how people adapt their everyday behavior by working from home, avoiding non-essential trips and canceling vacations.
Unacast said its dashboard does not identify any individual person, device or household, but rather extrapolates population level data using"tens of millions of anonymous mobile phones and their interactions with each other each day." Big tech companies often require users to"opt-in" to location tracking to launch the service. Then, they follow your every move, even when you don't have the apps open.
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