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I very much doubt it's as "secret" as you think. Have you actually tried to get access to this data?


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It might be, or not, but no one knows, because the data is secret.

This is private commercial data distributed under license. It isn't classified as Secret by the UK or US government.

I agree that the data isn't particularly secret, but I also agree that there doesn't seem to be any possible public good served by leaking this information.

The database contents are a secret. There are no news articles about it. However, I do know for a fact the database has serious problems (I'm not speculating).

I don't follow. This is a public service, with public data serving the public. There's nothing secret here. If anything should be public it's this.

That sort of data is normally not public

I'm quite surprised to see this. Isn't this confidential information?

This makes me wonder, has the data been public all this time?

Why would they leak the data? That seems counter-intuitive to me.

Isn't this information already public?

I don't think so, I believe all this information is publicly available, though anonymized.

It wasn't a secret. It's literally on their website with the sources listed. What exactly is secret. The dashboard they have lists the source: https://covid.cdc.gov/covid-data-tracker/#mobility

Ctrl-F "the mobility metrics are"


No. I won't post it publicly. It's not a state secret, and can be figured out, by looking through my links, but it's easier to simply email me, and I'll send it.

It's the kind of thing that is best left relatively "uncredited," and is important only to a certain demographic; but within that demographic, it is very, very important.


Public data LEAKED!!!

You don't know that. While the publicly available data leaks are indeed rare, you cannot know if they don't use the data for trading or other purposes for their personal gain without disclosing it to the public.

This information is useless. It leaks nothing but name and existence of something once public (that vanished from public view). Most importantly it's not confidential or critical in any way

I'm not sure I'd want information like this public. Doesn't seem safe.

What a joke. Secret it seems. I thought it leaked some database secrets. It showed the context which anyone who spent few hours reading how it’s setup will be able to get it out.

Since no one else asked -- isn't this confidential?
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