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
Speaking of spyware, I wonder if documents, for example Word documents, contain location information such as your computer’s IP address in the file’s metadata.
If so, big bro’ could just look at copies of a document (its metadata, that is) and see where the document came from, and when it was created and last edited.
Remember Facebook.
BTTT
COVID-19(84) was an excellent day run for the coming Mark of the Beast
Echelon = We Track Everything
“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.”
Now that’s funny right there.
NOT on my phone——
NO CELL PHONE
Mine looks like your grandma’s phone. Not even Caller ID
You have to ask yourself:
WHY does Microsoft have so many huge DATA CENTERS all over the country??? Cloud operations
How does that fit in here?
People get shot for doing stuff like this. Or at least, they should be.
Serious.
France recently allowed the police to spy on you thru your phone or any internet device like the tv with a camera, laptop or desktop with a camera, security camera etc.
yes the nsa has been capturing 100% for a long time ...
my point .... due to constraints on processor speed , the MOUNTAIN of data still provides some anonymity ...
hiding in the crowd so to speak.
Soon that will be overcome.
Then we go real time ...everyone ... every where .. all the time
We are in the early days of complete government control..We need to be patient while they work out the kinks and glitches.
I have had a conversation with by brother intercepted automatically. I promise, it happens.
My computer is pinged several times each day by the NSA.
How do you know that?
By watching the firewall log.
So, you see nsa.gov pings?
Yes
Not very covert of them, is it?
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