Posted on 05/04/2022 8:07:50 AM PDT by JV3MRC
The ABC, CBS and NBC evening news shows ignored a damning new report alleging the U.S. government tracked millions of Americans to ensure compliance with the draconian COVID-19 lockdown orders.
Left-wing outlet Vice Motherboard released a jaw-dropping report May 3 headlined: “CDC Tracked Millions of Phones to See If Americans Followed COVID Lockdown Orders.” The subhead said documents obtained by Vice showed that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention “planned to use phone location data to monitor schools and churches.” The article said the documents "date from 2021." In addition, the CDC reportedly “wanted to use the data for many non-COVID-19 purposes too.” ABC World News Tonight, CBS Evening News and NBC Nightly News all ignored the story during their May 3 broadcasts, despite this disturbing news.
(Excerpt) Read more at newsbusters.org ...
Creepy!
Government is the enemy from all appearances.
Why spend more money duplicating?
Anyone with an Android phone, and I think anyone with an iPhone that uses Google Maps, can go to Google Maps and look at their "Timeline." It shows where the phone occasionally pinged a location. So you can see on a day by day basis where you've been.
Yes maybe a little intrusive, but also kinda neat. I'm not doing anything sketchy so for now {wink wink} I don't care. I also know how to prevent it if I ever feel the need to do so. However, here's my plan:
The next nice day I'm going to go for a motorcycle ride. Before that, I'm going to spend some quality time on Google Maps planning out a route. When I, or more importantly if anyone else looks at where I've been, my route trace is going to form a closed fist with one particular finger raised... ;-)
Bombshell! VICE Reports The CDC Tracked MILLIONS Of Phones To See If Americans Obeyed Lockdown Orders 👀
CDC doesn’t have the capability to do this. So they hire criminals to do this crap!
Not the Bee:
Big Brother CDC Phones Big Brother Is Watching:
Bombshell! VICE Reports The CDC Tracked MILLIONS Of Phones To See If Americans Obeyed Lockdown Orders 👀
Harris Rigby: May 3rd, 2022 1:45 pm:
“If this ain’t a breach of privacy and an overreach by government, I don’t know what is.”
CDC Tracked Millions of Phones to See If Americans Followed COVID Lockdown Orders:
Newly released documents showed the CDC planned to use phone location data to monitor schools and churches, and wanted to use the data for many non-COVID-19 purposes too.
WWW.VICE.COM
https://www.vice.com/en/article/m7vymn/cdc-tracked-phones-location-data-curfews
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 demonized 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.
Mark of the beast
It is my understanding that smart phones will ping cell towers even if tracking, etc., is turned off no matter what. This includes when the phone is off or powered down - as long as it has battery power it will ping and can be tracked.
“smart phones”
Any cellphone
” is turned off no matter what.”
Source?
“Fake news, fake woke, distract, and divide
You’re either right or you’re left or you’re black or you’re white
Big tech don’t need a microchip to hack in your life
‘Cause the phone inside your pocket is a tracking device”
How did they decipher who was “essential”? I mean didn’t miss a day of work during Covid….was in breach of the lock down because I work in a car dealership? Not a hospital?
Your phone occasionally pings looking for nearby cell towers. It will usually pick the one that it gets the strongest signal from and associate with that tower. The tower in return sends that info back to the phone company. That way, if someone calls you, the phone company routes the call to that tower and then to your phone. Incoming calls go to one tower, not all of them. That would quickly overload the towers if they didn't have some sense of who was where. Obviously if you call someone on Verizon it is not going out over every Verizon tower. Instead the call goes to Verizon, it says "Oh, phone # xyz? That's currently associated with tower PDQ..." and routes the call there. That information alone is enough to locate you within a reasonably short distance from the tower. Typically within several miles.
As I understand it, the phone company can poll towers and "dump logs" or some such - see which phones are not only currently connected to each tower, but also which phones have recently pinged it then said "thanks but no thanks, I'm getting a better signal from this other tower." With that additional information about what towers your phone "sees" but decided not to connect to, they can triangulate your position down even tighter. Depending on the number and location of towers in the area they can probably get your phone's location down to within a couple dozen yards - without GPS, without asking your phone anything, without you even knowing. Just by having your phone on.
There are some people who claim even if your phone is off it can be remotely turned on. I'm not sure I believe that, or at least that it works the way you might think. Off is off, no CPU, no RF links, etc. However... If your phone is accessed and compromised it *may* be possible to install code into it that takes over. Then if/when you turn it off it only gives the appearance of being off. It may still be on, just running in a very low power mode and only doing what the attacker wants it to do - recording locations or audio or video, maybe communicating that out. But from all outward appearances it is off. If you cannot remove the battery from your phone and you're not sure off is really off... There are things like RF shielding bags and such that block the phone's ability to get GPS information or send out any information. You'd still have to keep it where it could not see or hear you. Or just leave it behind...
But, consider...if big brother, in all their incarnations, have this power, why would they ever willingly relinquish it? For my best interests? Ha, I don't think so.
It's said the only way to stop the pings is to stop the signal, either by having a dead phone or shielding it, such as wrapping it in aluminum foil and placing in a closed jar.
Most phones no longer have a removable battery.
We didn’t comply. Come and get me, you fascists.
W/ 5g, whatever tracking capabilities there are available will be refined, as there will be so many more cell towers out there due to the 5g signal needing a closer proximity to your device.
Not even 'towers' as we have now. I read the cell devices will be on standard power poles and they will be everywhere, just as power & telephone poles are everywhere. At least in the urban areas, rural may have to rely on standard 4g.
I have no desire to migrate to 5g. I don’t download movies or music albums. Or stream much of anything.
I did know one guy who claimed he ran his home network from his phone. TV, internet, whatever, he claimed it was doable. 5g might make such an environment easily possible. Tho, this would truly be “having all your eggs in one basket.” Lose or damage your phone and you’re out of business.
All cell phones have a unique number identifying it. (just like computers have)
All modern cell phones include a GPS device that maps where you are, and probably records it from time to time. That data may be later uploaded to give the movement tracking, regardless of tower interaction.
Today, if it has a computer in it (cell phone, radio, car, appliance or possibly your refrigerator (smile) it tracks what you do and where you are when you do it.
Welcome to the Brave New World. Way past 1984.
Just things I’ve read along the way.”
LOL!
” 5g might make such an environment easily possible”
Most home apps use wifi, not your phone service. If you are away from home, you can use phone service to access your home network to control devices. That works fine on 4G.
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