Illegal Spyware Defended [semi-satire]

Semi-News/Semi-Satire ^ | 20 November 2022 | John Semmens

[John Semmens]

The Massachusetts Department of Public Health (DPH) colluded with Google to auto-install contact-tracing spyware on the smartphones of over a million Massachusetts residents. Though this collusion is not authorized by any statutory law, Margret Cooke, Acting Commissioner/General Counsel for DPH asserted a public benefit justification.

"The purpose of the spyware was to distinguish between citizens who were obeying our pandemic lockdown orders and those who were flouting them," Cooke said. "Since few owners of smart phones were voluntarily downloading the app that would allow us to track their movements we reached an agreement with Google to surreptitiously install the app and reinstall it whenever a user deleted it. We may not have had explicit authority to do this, but the health emergency posed by the pandemic gave us the moral authority to do this."

Though the covid pandemic has waned since this illegal spying was initiated, Cooke pointed out that "several valuable uses of the app have been deployed. For one, we were able to participate with Predict Wise to track over 100 million Americans. The covid obedience scores ascertained enabled the Democratic National Committee, the Democrat Parties of Arizona, North Dakota, Ohio, Florida and South Carolina to mobilize the obedient cohort to cast ballots for Democrats in the November 8 elections."

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[KC Burke]

Good find as always John.

As the Boston Herald has a pay wall on their article on this issue, here it the Blaze link for those that want it:
https://www.theblaze.com/news/massachusetts-department-health-google-spyware-phones