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tindjinn | 5 years ago

Well, considering the all-seeing Chinese government practically owns Baidu and most other Chinese brands it is not very surprising that they're able to track individual users across multiple platforms. Location data is merely one tiny point on the vast graph of data they have access to.

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Dahoon|5 years ago

But this isn't PRC but Harvard.

beervirus|5 years ago

It's a little surprising the PRC would let this unflattering data be available.

cameldrv|5 years ago

The official line now is that the virus didn't start in the seafood market. The bats that carry the closest viruses to SARS-CoV-2 are located 1000 miles south of Wuhan, and were in hibernation in November. For the theory that the virus was transmitted from a bat to a human in Yunnan to work, it needs to have happened earlier in the year.

adventured|5 years ago

There are a lot of points of data to scrub in such a large system, it's not surprising that they would miss numerous of them in the wild. Watch to see if this one disappears or not.