If this ain't a breach of privacy and an overreach by government, I don't know what is.
The Center for Disease Control has been spying on YOU!
Of course, we now have become so numb that we expect it from the CIA, or FBI, or IRS, or even the post office.
But the CDC looked at tracking info from MILLIONS of phones to monitor how well people obeyed their lockdown orders.
Here it is from VICE.
FROM VICE!
(What a time to be alive!)
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. The documents also show that although the CDC used COVID-19 as a reason to buy access to the data more quickly, it intended to use it for more general CDC purposes.
Location data is information on a device's location sourced from the phone, which can then show where a person lives, works, and where they went. 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—but researchers have repeatedly raised concerns with how location data can be deanonymized and used to track specific people.
This data that can almost certainly be used to track individuals was acquired during Covid, but the CDC has other reasons they want the info as well.
This is straight-up insane.
The CDC used the data for monitoring curfews, with the documents saying that SafeGraph's data "has been critical for ongoing response efforts, such as hourly monitoring of activity in curfew zones or detailed counts of visits to participating pharmacies for vaccine monitoring." The documents date from 2021.
Zach Edwards, a cybersecurity researcher who closely follows the data marketplace, told Motherboard in an online chat after reviewing the documents that "The CDC seems to have purposefully created an open-ended list of use cases, which included monitoring curfews, neighbor to neighbor visits, visits to churches, schools and pharmacies, and also a variety of analysis with this data specifically focused on ‘violence.'" (The document doesn't stop at churches; it mentions "places of worship.")
The CDC has the ability to track whether or not you are going to church!
In a world where the government – with an assist from many evangelicals these days – can shut down churches on a whim, it's even more frightening to know that they can find out whether or not you are at your church in contradiction to their decree.
In the eyes of leftists, the right to privacy is only applicable to abortion.
If the CDC wants to track whether or not you're going to church or the pharmacy, then I'm sure The Left thinks that's totally okay.
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