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I wonder if WiFi connection information could help. Being on different networks would suggest greater social distance.


During current "distance under all circumstances, stay at home", that is likely going to be true (modulo people using multi-AP setups that aren't meshed under one SSID, assuming you use SSID, or who use 2.4 and 5 GHz SSIDs).

Going forward though, I imagine that as restrictions loosen, the usefulness of WiFI connections would drop significantly, as people aren't always at home. It would also not really help in the workplace, assuming a large campus WiFi setup, since everyone would probably be joined to the same network anyway.

The challenge would be privacy - you'd have to send some kind of information (or unique derivative) of the BSSID/SSID, which would introduce some privacy impact too. At that point, assuming you got access to the hashed SSID/BSSIDs, someone like Google with a street view dataset of AP MAC addresses could "enrich" the anonymised dataset with "ordinary location".




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