Facebook and CMU recently posted its first data from COVID-19 Symptom Checker.
Facebook, in partnership with Carnegie Mellon University, recently published its first data from COVID-19 Symptom Checker.
This, after Facebook officially announced its “Data for Good” tools last April 7 in order to support health researchers as well as non-profit organizations. One of these tools that launched by Facebook was a survey conducted by Carnegie Mellon University Delphi Research Center.
The said survey had collected one million (1,000,000) responses per week, as such, the Carnegie Mellon University made an API in order for the researchers to access the said data.
The COVID-19 Symptom Map presented an estimated percentage of people with coronavirus symptoms and not with confirmed COVID-19 cases, as such, Facebook used collective public data that were collected from the said survey.
Facebook clarified that it didn’t collect or store individual survey responses; in the same manner, the COVID-19 Symptom Map wasn’t intended for diagnostic or treatment purposes nor for guidance on any type of travel.
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Facebook is just using this crisis to further boost it information on people which they sell to insurance companies and others. Do not trust Facebook for 1 minute. They trade all our information. Please be careful with your information as it may come back at you later. Facebook is actually like a police who monitor every aspect of our lives. I now refuse to give Facebook or their other company WhatsApp any personal information. Always change your date of birth when registering and as many personal details as possible to make record keeping more difficult for them