Posted on 03/21/2023 5:17:11 AM PDT by MtnClimber
Big Brother is closer than you think.
According to this disturbing report in the Epoch Times:
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) purchased data from tracking companies to monitor compliance with lockdowns, according to contracts with the firms.
The CDC paid one firm $420,000 and another $208,000. That bought access to location data from at least 55 million cellphone users.
The contracts, approved under emergency review due to the COVID-19 pandemic, were aimed at providing the CDC “with the necessary data to continue critical emergency response functions related to evaluating the impact of visits to key points of interest, stay at home orders, closures, re-openings and other public heath communications related to mask mandate, and other merging research areas on community transmission of SARS-CoV-2,” the contracts, obtained by The Epoch Times, state.
The CDC said it would be using the tracking data to “assess home-by-hour behaviors (i.e. curfew analysis) by exploring the percentage of mobile devices at home during specific period of time.” The data could also be integrated with other information “to provide a comprehensive picture of movement/travel of persons during the COVID-19 pandemic to better understand mandatory stay-at-home orders, business closure, school re-openings, and other non-pharmaceutical interventions in states and cities.”
Ah, that vague purpose once again, but nothing malign.
We've seen this picture show before, in all the blather about the objective and claimed free-speech-guarding intentions of the Disinformation Governance Board, the FBI censorship recommendations to Twitter, the teachers' unions commanding the CDC what to "think" on school openings, the demonization of parents at school board meetings, the Obama-era "nudge" activity for our own good, the IRS obstruction of tea party groups, the Obama-era "unmaskings" of Americans in intelligence reports, and in all the COVID origin denials.
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But 1984 was not supposed to be an instruction manual.
Sounds like the biden crime family learned well from their owners.
Why I left my phone at home during the lockdown.
I still do most of the time.
So the CDC bought the very same data that the leftists said could not have possibly worked as depicted in “2000 Mules.”
I didn’t watch “2000 Mules,” but it sure died a quick death.
The dirty little secret here is that you don’t own your mobile phone location data, and the government doesn’t even need a warrant to get it.
Wireless phone service providers own this data, and they make money by selling it. You can look it up. It’s in the fine print of your phone contract.
Very Chinese commie-like.
The Republic is long gone. Now the leftists are tightening the noose on basic freedoms.
I am well aware that a cell phone position data belongs to the cell service provider. Most people are not aware that cell phones are in regular communication with cell towers over a “Control Channel”. This is how the cell network knows which cell tower to route to when there is a call to your phone. As you move with your phone, the phone gets handed to new cell towers when needed. Your cell phone information communicated to the cell tower on the control channel included the GPS location of the phone. Many people think that the cell system only knows your location when you make a phone call, but that is not true. The cell system is receiving your GPS location on the Control Channel often enough that it can be considered to be constantly tracking the location. And you are right that the location history is available for purchase by advertisers or by the government.
bttt
Shocked,
SHOCKED I Tell You !
Trick is on them- I don’t own a cell phone lol.
This is exactly why I got a Faraday bag and/or left my phone at home when I went about my business during the “lockdowns.”
Why I don’t have one. Well, there’s a simple Tracfone in the car for emergencies. In a Faraday pouch. But a GPS-enabled smartphone? Nope!
We are still under emergency Covid Martial Law.
THEY Want You...
They gonna Get Ya!
Phone Cops.
And with 5G it tracks in 3D and within decimeters, even without the GPS component.
I do the same unless I am traveling. I bought a new iPhone about a year ago to replace a flakey 4 year old iPhone that wasn't worth getting fixed. I was able to resurrect the old phone with a $10 wireless charger. The old phone works great for a golfing app as long as I enable location services and launch the course before I leave the house...
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