A child born today will never know privacy.
Everything that they do and everything that they say will be recorded, analysed, and monetised.
They will take for granted that this is the way that the world is — unless we do something about it now, while we still can.
Germany bans Facebook from handling WhatsApp data over privacy concerns - https://www.euronews.com/2021/05/11/germany-bans-facebook-from-handling-whatsapp-data-over-privacy-concerns
Evidence: the less press freedom there is in a country, the less noise there is in the country's #SARSCoV2 daily infection counts. This is statistically significant at the p < 0.05 level.
Interpretation: less press freedom => more faking of "open" governmental data: SARS-CoV-2 counts.
Comments welcome on draft revision (81da1ae): https://upload.disroot.org/r/30FUcbz0#UMQDmAL99KVMezwpSP8MvfU44cp9Ma4Tui0l52DhICc=
https://arXiv.org/abs/2007.11779 = https://zenodo.org/record/4432080 = https://codeberg.org/boud/subpoisson
#OpenData #OpenScience #FreePress #RSF #COVID19 #Epidemiology
Perfecting linear motion.