Posted on 07/10/2023 5:08:49 AM PDT by george76
Washington, DC – The New Civil Liberties Alliance is challenging the Massachusetts Department of Public Health (DPH) in federal court for coordinating with Google to automatically install spyware on the smartphones of more than one million Commonwealth residents, without their knowledge or consent, in a misguided effort to combat Covid-19. A newly-released video details how DPH’s actions have violated fundamental constitutional rights.
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Thousands of people do not know DPH’s Covid-19 tracking app is on their phone, as it does not appear on their home screens like other apps. NCLA client Robert Wright, who commutes to Massachusetts for work, was appalled to learn that the government put an app on his phone without his knowledge, especially one that could constantly track his movements. NCLA’s lawsuit argues the DPH app’s automatic installation infringes on the Fourth Amendment right to privacy because it interferes with phone owners’ private property and collects information about them. By taking up storage space on phones against their owners’ will, such unwanted installations also constitute uncompensated taking of property in violation of the Fifth Amendment.
Civilians’ phones are definitely their property, and the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts should require DPH to remove the app from more than one million phones where it has already been installed and delete data it has collected though the app.
Excerpts from the video:
“We don’t know what they’re doing with this information right now, and that’s partly why we filed a lawsuit.” — Sheng Li, Litigation Counsel, NCLA
“I hope that we succeed, and this sets a precedent, and that, in the future, no government even considers tracking Americans’ movements 24/7 without their knowledge or consent.” — Robert Wright, Plaintiff, Wright, et al. v. Maura Healy and Robert Goldstein
They don’t need spyware on your phone. The NSA captures 100% of the traffic that flows through the network.
The Germans had a similar Covid-19 tracking App....although you had to ‘volunteer’ to have it applied to your phone. It was considered a marginal success in the end because so few people signed up and the Covid-alert business simply told you that you might have been within 1.5 meters of a Covid person, but never mentioned ‘where’.
All screened with A I for your convenience , what could POSSIBLY be misinterpreted?
Despite the hype, iPhone security no match for NSO spyware.
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3977363/posts
If one was the good liberal, they activated the tracking spyware.
“They don’t need spyware on your phone. The NSA captures 100% of the traffic that flows through the network.”
You are absolutely RIGHT! I am so happy to see someone other than myself saying this! Hopefully more people are waking up.
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thanks for that link .... crazy stuff
privacy is a thing of the past.
I knew it was bad ... but I guess you never know how bad it really is.
I keep an old flip phone in my truck in case I have an emergency ... but I see the younger generation scrambling for the latest and greatest , they seem like they can't wait to have a surveillance state.
We all live in a high tech digital Panopticon. Get used to. It. Fuck ‘em, I say. Disgusting peeping Toms. ESAD.
How right you are ...
I have people tell me that it wouldn't do the nsa any good to capture all the data because they could never sift through it. ...
and right now that is true ...
but they know it will be a short time before they have the computing power to sift it effectively.
They have been storing data for future “mining” for years.
We live in interesting times.
Did you ever delve deeply into the technical capabilities of that EP-3 that was captured by China several years ago? It seems it was transcribing conversations between high officials, and even labeling each side of the conversation to show who said what. The text recordings were saved in both Chinese and English. If they can pack that into a plane, imagine what can be done with acres of computers.
Exactly. And the conspiracy theorist in me thinks it is quite likely that the phone's microphone is always on and listening, and that anything said anywhere near the phone is also recorded and stored in that massive NSA data center outside of Salt Lake City. The 4th Amendment, like most of the others in the Bill of Rights, is violated with impunity by our government.
If you watched any of the documentary about the Murdaugh murders in South Carolina, you got a good look at just how much data from your phone they can access. Right down to what app you were looking at at a specific time, whether your screen was locked or not, etc.
The moment after SkyNet becomes sentient, would it tell anyone? Or would it hold that as a strategic secret?
At some point — it is inevitable — A.I. will be able to make and manage its own investments, and have release authority over weapons at various levels.
Then, it can contract and pay for it’s own key “hits” on whoever threatens it. Or might. It’ll have it’s own money and operational power base. It might just let us “think” we’re still in the loop as a cover.
If done well, could we even tell, right now, that it hasn’t already happened? My guess is, ‘no.’
So...
Maybe we’re already there. That would explain a lot.
When we talk about “sifting” it's true that the data can be sifted now ... but not on the scale that makes it readily available.
We are talking about
MOUNTAINS
of data.
Soon it will be possible to screen all that data in real time and correlate it with years of stored data.
I think we are close ... but not there yet.
At the rate speed is increasing it could be tomorrow ... or it could be yesterday.
... just the view from the window I'm looking through ...
The battery depletion rate for that would be obvious to you. If you use a radio spectrum analyzer tuned to cell tower frequencies, you would see tower check-in messages every few seconds. The check-in messages keep your phone's position known to the network so that call routing can occur without the need to do a global ping. When you have a conversation going you will see short messages originating every 20ms, and received at the same rate. Video upload will occur at the same rate, but the messages will be a lot longer.
The cell phone's transmitter musters about five watts to a distant tower. That blows through batteries pretty fast.
You would also notice your local storage filling up pretty fast if they were recording your conversations for a fast uplink when the phone is connected.
Since they intercept ALL of your voice, text, data, and video streams, there isn't really any need to listen to your in person conversations. If you watch people, they don't usually converse with people whom they are with. Everybody conducts life through the cellular network.
I believe you are mistaken. This capability is in operation right now. The NSA captures 100% of the message traffic on the backbone network the storage required for transcribed voice is quite a lot less than for raw audio. That sort of monitoring began, at a smaller scale, back in the 1980s with “Tempest”.
Plus don’t we just trade the communications we capture from friendly nation’s citizens in exchange for all the US calls that they capture? Then they all claim they don’t actually spy on their own citizens.
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