CDC apparently tracked millions of phones without warrants

[Valletta]

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) bought access to location data harvested from tens of millions of phones in the United States to perform analysis of compliance with curfews, track patterns of people visiting K-12 schools, and specifically monitor the effectiveness of policy in the Navajo Nation, according to CDC documents obtained by Motherboard.
CDC Tracked Millions of Phones to See If Americans Followed COVID Lockdown Orders
This disturbing report needs further verification, but certainly fits right in with other Biden administration policies to control the populace. I would not be surprised at all if it turns out to be 100 percent true.

 

[cow451]

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) bought access to location data harvested from tens of millions of phones in the United States to perform analysis of compliance with curfews, track patterns of people visiting K-12 schools, and specifically monitor the effectiveness of policy in the Navajo Nation, according to CDC documents obtained by Motherboard.
CDC Tracked Millions of Phones to See If Americans Followed COVID Lockdown Orders
This disturbing report needs further verification, but certainly fits right in with other Biden administration policies to control the populace. I would not be surprised at all if it turns out to be 100 percent true.

Vice is pretty hard core in reporting. Unfortunately that’s why they are in financial strain and for sale. Accurate reporting is pretty boring much of the time.

Another company was sharing data about women visiting health clinics. The tech is scary.

 

[Tanj]

but certainly fits right in with other Biden administration policies to control the populace. I would not be surprised at all if it turns out to be 100 percent true.

But you would be surprised to learn what year it first happened in and which administration was in charge at the time.

Ahh the irony.

 

[Valletta]

But you would be surprised to learn what year it first happened in and which administration was in charge at the time.

Ahh the irony.

Could have happened then, outrageous. We need to start over from scratch with a lot of these federal agencies. The problem has been that when individuals are caught breaking the law or the trust of the American people typically nothing happens to them. Now they are getting caught up in wokeness as well. The worst that happened to anyone I ever complained about was a response from the Inspector General that the individual would be talked to. I've personally dealt with a number of federal employees who provided false information under oath.

 

[friend of]

The same thing happened in Canada.

 

[Tanj]

Could have happened then, outrageous.

Are you going to walk back the "right in with other Biden policies" given it apparently was also a Trump policy? Or just leave that hyperpartisan wrongness hanging.

Also, if this data was deidentified, then it is no longer subject to privacy laws....lets see...

The sort of data the CDC bought was aggregated—meaning it was designed to follow trends that emerge from the movements of groups of people

Well gee, who'd a thunk. Nice the article got at least one thing right. I mean, it followed that up with pure nonsense:

but researchers have repeatedly raised concerns with how location data can be deanonymized and used to track specific people.

Yeah, we have, with row level data. There isn't a single person with the slightest understanding of data that has worried about reidentification from aggregate data.

Gee it would be nice if poutragers had an ounce of understanding of the things they were poutraging about.

 

[cow451]

Ahh the irony.

With starched collars.

 

[Halbhh]

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) bought access to location data harvested from tens of millions of phones in the United States to perform analysis of compliance with curfews, track patterns of people visiting K-12 schools, and specifically monitor the effectiveness of policy in the Navajo Nation, according to CDC documents obtained by Motherboard.
CDC Tracked Millions of Phones to See If Americans Followed COVID Lockdown Orders
This disturbing report needs further verification, but certainly fits right in with other Biden administration policies to control the populace. I would not be surprised at all if it turns out to be 100 percent true.

The anonymous movement data from phones was in the newspapers, very prominent.

I saw those degree of movement graphics about.... Maybe 30 or 40 times.

Not secret. Very prominent news.

Even on the TV evening news.

Hard to miss.

 

[Halbhh]

April 2020 -- I remember one of the early articles I read on it.

The phone location tracking data results led the evening TV news also.

So you could learn about it when it was happening, early on, and repeatedly.

Example:
Location Data Says It All: Staying at Home During Coronavirus Is a Luxury (Published April 2020)

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) bought access to location data harvested from tens of millions of phones in the United States to perform analysis of compliance with curfews, track patterns of people visiting K-12 schools, and specifically monitor the effectiveness of policy in the Navajo Nation, according to CDC documents obtained by Motherboard.
CDC Tracked Millions of Phones to See If Americans Followed COVID Lockdown Orders
This disturbing report needs further verification, but certainly fits right in with other Biden administration policies to control the populace. I would not be surprised at all if it turns out to be 100 percent true.

 

[Trogdor the Burninator]

This disturbing report needs further verification, but certainly fits right in with other Biden administration policies to control the populace. I would not be surprised at all if it turns out to be 100 percent true.

When you post yet another anti-Biden thread, only to have someone point out that the policy you're criticizing was enacted by Trump.

<cue tuba music>

 

[Homeowner]

I've personally dealt with a number of federal employees who provided false information under oath.

 

[com7fy8]

This disturbing report needs further verification, but certainly fits right in with other Biden administration policies to control the populace.

Knowing where I am is not the same as controlling me.

It seems there are ones trying to control me, by claiming Joe Biden is trying to control me. They are trying to control my attention, may be. And possibly they want me to automatically resist whatever they say is coming from Joe. But they might be lying or giving me false information that they were handed, in order to control me.

But we can make God's use of whatever a political leader or the CDC does. There can be times when wrong leaders do what we can use for good.

 

[Aryeh Jay]

I wonder if it is the CDC who keeps sending me emails to rate my latest visit to Ace Hardware or Kroger.

 

[durangodawood]

Knowing where I am is not the same as controlling me.

It seems there are ones trying to control me, by claiming Joe Biden is trying to control me. They are trying to control my attention, may be. And possibly they want me to automatically resist whatever they say is coming from Joe. But they might be lying or giving me false information that they were handed, in order to control me.

But we can make God's use of whatever a political leader or the CDC does. There can be times when wrong leaders do what we can use for good.

I dont think the CDC knew where you are. Its just anonymized data of where people generally are moving around.

That said, collection, storage, and selling of identifiable personal data by corporations is real. Its also a predictable practice in the free market we all love.

 

[cow451]

I wonder if it is the CDC who keeps sending me emails to rate my latest visit to Ace Hardware or Kroger.

Is top soil on sale this weekend?

 

[Aryeh Jay]

Is top soil on sale this weekend?

No, it was in March though.

 

[cow451]

No, it was in March though.

Dang.

 

[Aryeh Jay]

Dang.

There's a dirt shortage in Tennessee?

 

[cow451]

There's a dirt shortage in Tennessee?

No, but most of it is in Nashville.

 

[essentialsaltes]

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) bought

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