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Australian researchers identify Facebook mobile data can be used for COVID-19 tracing – ZDNet

Researchers tested their prediction model against three well-documented COVID-19 outbreaks.

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A group of Australian researchers have uncovered that Facebook mobility data could be used to estimate the spread of COVID-19 transmission risk from identified hotspots.
The researchers from the University of Melbourne, University of Adelaide, Monash University, University of New South Wales, and the Victorian government used data from the Facebook Data for Good program that detailed the number of individuals who moved between locations in subsequent 8-hour intervals during three COVID-19 outbreaks…

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