Human rights groups strangely unconcerned at the @NYTimes ability to invade our privacy

1) It criticizes Israel and @netanyahu for using cell phone records to track people’s locations so it can inform them if they were near someone with COVID-19 saying it is an invasion of privacy.

Netanyahu’s Bold Moves: Fighting a Virus or Risking Democracy?Israel’s prime minister has shut down the courts and ordered the government to track people by their cellphone data in the name of fighting an epidemic.https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/18/world/middleeast/israel-virus-netanyahu.html

2) It publishes its own analysis of where Americans have been traveling during the crisis, based on billions of cell phone records. But it insists that the data they used is anonymous.

Showing that “anonymous data” is a lie, by their own reporting.

Opinion | Twelve Million Phones, One Dataset, Zero PrivacyWhat we learned from the spy in your pocket.https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/12/19/opinion/location-tracking-cell-phone.html

So what, exactly, is the difference between what Israel is doing to help slow down the pandemic and what the NYT is doing to publicize how people are behaving?

But there is one significant difference: